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A comment on A Parable by Dijkstra (1973).

Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by konschubert on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:55AM (#17539283)
I'll bite. What's the morale that he's implying?

That algorithms can be simplified by slightly lifting the constraints?

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Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:22AM (#17548397)
That some problems can be solved more easily with a different data structure.

I think it was Robert Tarjan that wrote a book on that topic, but I can't find it.

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