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Re: Open Data Structures

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If expanded enough, you could easily arrive at the Wikipedia of data structures. A place where, without the cludge of libraries, you could dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure that seems like the best match for what you want, and then implement.

Even better if at the top of code I could just put:

Language c++

Use OpenData (BarnesHutt BubbleSort SVD)

If only these people would tie in with the Computer Language Benchmarks Game so that you would have a feedback mechanism to improve All algorithms (not just the CBG subset) and a natural way to meta rate algorithm implementations vs one another as well as task groups (like "sorting") or languages as a whole.

Re: Open Data Structures

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post #4

Links didn't look like links so I was really confused with what I was looking at. Content looks interesting though!

> a { text-decoration: none; }

You bastards.

(Should be fixable with:

  a[href] { text-decoration: underline !important; }
in userContent.css.)

Re: Open Data Structures

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post #2

If expanded enough, you could easily arrive at the Wikipedia of data structures. A place where, without the cludge of libraries, you could dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure that seems like the best match for what you want, and then implement. Even better if at the top of code I could just put: Language c++ Use OpenData (BarnesHutt BubbleSort SVD) If only these pe…

We have this already:

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

Re: Open Data Structures

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post #2

If expanded enough, you could easily arrive at the Wikipedia of data structures. A place where, without the cludge of libraries, you could dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure that seems like the best match for what you want, and then implement. Even better if at the top of code I could just put: Language c++ Use OpenData (BarnesHutt BubbleSort SVD) If only these pe…

> A place where, without the cludge of libraries, you could dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure that seems like the best match for what you want, and then implement.

Or, in my experience, a place where you can dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure with promising properties, be faced with an opaque wall of math, then copy/paste the data structure's name into Google and spend a day or two trying to find someone or something who will actually explain how to implement it in terms of bits and bytes, rather than polynomials over a Galois field.

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