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Re:Open Data Structures by araes on Saturday January 17, 2015 @01:26PM (#8905049)
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 by thristian on Saturday January 17, 2015 @05:58PM (#8905879)
> 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.

Re:Open Data Structures by orbifold on Saturday January 17, 2015 @10:35PM (#8906507)
Which why a programming language should ideally support arithmetic in a polynomial ring over an arbitrary field...
Re:Open Data Structures by jacquesm on Saturday January 17, 2015 @03:04PM (#8905345)
We have this already:

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

Re:Open Data Structures by igouy on Saturday January 17, 2015 @08:15PM (#8906221)
>>If only these people would tie in with the Computer Language Benchmarks Game<<

The Problem Based Benchmark Suite might be a better match:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/

Re:Open Data Structures by araes on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @12:56PM (#8918262)
Maybe, but the PBBS folks don't seem to understand the value of the "hook." They look like they've got a lot of useful bits, but there's not an easy avenue for you to dive in and explore what that means.

I've never even played the "game" part of the CLBG, but there's still a whole nother layer of data porn, voyeuristic comparison wanking that draws you in. Heck, even the divisiveness of showing two numbers is enough to drive interest, cause nobody likes seeing their number worse, and everybody secretly loves knowing their choice was right.