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- From: swillden@news.ccutah.edu (Shawn Willden)
- Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:01:11 GMT
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- nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- : swillden@news.ccutah.edu (Shawn Willden) writes:
- : > Is this scheme similar to the one you had in mind? If yours
- : >is better, please share it (or provide references, I suppose I ought
- : >to check Knuth to see if he has anything like this).
- : >In any case, I like the idea well enough that I think I'm going to
- : >start using it.
- :
- : 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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- Not true. B-trees are discussed by Knuth in the "Art of Computer
- Programming". And B-trees are ordered, something that is not required
- and probably not wanted in the application I was discussing.
-
- : John Nagle
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- Shawn Willden
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