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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by skydhash on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:23PM (#50383980)
The thing is, solutions related to computing techniques, are few and can be found in algorithm textbooks. Some are then put into standard libraries.

Almost everything else is domain specific where you have to understand the domain first before understanding the code. And modeling a domain is all about tradeoffs between accuracy, performance, specific vs generic,…

Instead of collecting such solutions, a better approach is to master basic data structures, and then improve your modeling capabilities. After that, it’s mostly learning domain as they come (dsp, physic modeling, operating system concepts, relational database, graph theory, 3D geometry, accounting,…)

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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by WillAdams on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:40PM (#50386678)
I am currently (re)reading Niklaus Wirth's book on data structures, and trying to work through the new Knuth fascicle on Constraint Satisfaction --- the idea here was that one could have a repository which one could search through to see/compare existing solutions as an alternative to using an existing library.
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