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- From: erik@naggum.no (Erik Naggum)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.misc
- Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
- Message-ID: <19921230.018@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:00:54 GMT
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- [John Nagle]
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- | Look into B-trees for this sort of thing. But don't look in Knuth's
- | "Art of Computer Programming" for them; they postdate that classic
- | work.
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- Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming, volume 3, Sorting and
- Searching, second printing, page 473-480: B-trees:
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- "A new approach to external searching by means of multiway tree
- branching was discovered in 1970 by R. Bayer and E. McCreight [Acta
- Informatica (1972), 173-189], and independently at about the same time
- by M. Kaufman [unpublished]. ..."
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- Preface dated "Oslo, Norway; September 1972". Copyright 1973.
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- Oslo, Norway
- December 1992 Erik Naggum
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- Disclaimer: I was a kid at the time.
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