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  1. Xref: sparky comp.lang.c:19032 comp.lang.c++:18546 comp.misc:4727
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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle
  4. From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
  5. Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.173627.2696@netcom.com>
  7. Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
  8. References: <1992Dec28.015333.5242@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Dec29.211256.188@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
  9. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:36:27 GMT
  10. Lines: 12
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  12. swillden@news.ccutah.edu (Shawn Willden) writes:
  13. >    Is this scheme similar to the one you had in mind?  If yours
  14. >is better, please share it (or provide references, I suppose I ought
  15. >to check Knuth to see if he has anything like this).
  16. >In any case, I like the idea well enough that I think I'm going to
  17. >start using it.
  18.  
  19.        Look into B-trees for this sort of thing.  But don't look in
  20. Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" for them; they postdate that classic
  21. work.
  22.  
  23.                     John Nagle
  24.