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Re^4: Perl Advocacy w.r.t Teachingby Anonymous Monk |
| on Feb 10, 2005 at 17:59 UTC ( [id://429842]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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You mean, LISP doesn't force you to look at your data as lists?
I don't think it's relevant that Java uses objects, or that LISP uses lists. Or that C just scribbles all over your memory. Those are details. A balanced tree is still a balanced tree, regardless whether you implement your nodes or your keys as objects, lists, SVs or memory locations. A teaching language should be simple, so you don't have to spend your time on syntax details. But whether the working horse of a language is objects or lists or something else is, IMO, not relevant. BTW, the best language to explain algorithms and datastructures are drawings.
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