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Re:Purely Functional Data Structure by Chris Okasaki [pdf] by 082349872349872 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:54PM (#36130637)
Purely Fictional Data Structures include:

  To Queue a Mockingbird
  The Call-stack of the Wild
  Tesselation of the d'Urbervilles
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo Hash
  The Data of the Woosters
  Brideshead Re-visitor
  The Catcher in the Trie
  Les Miser-tables
  The Nat-elim of Monte Cristo
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Re:Purely Functional Data Structure by Chris Okasaki [pdf] by gowld on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @12:58PM (#36140610)
> The Catcher in the Trie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#History,_etymology,_and_p...

and the counterpart, Purely Fictional Languages:

   The Catcher in the *Try*
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