>But the thing is, you don't write C programs in Rust and you don't generally use doubly linked lists. The usefulness of linked lists is entirely beside the po

>But the thing is, you don't write C programs in Rust and you don't generally use doubly linked lists. The usefulness of linked lists is entirely beside the point. They just serve as an example for situations where additional restrictions can cause a program to be longer or more difficult to understand. >It really depends on what those 10 tokens are doing. If I have a token that creates a new universe, seeds it with life, and creates the conditions for life to develop an optimal linked list - it might solve the problem in one step, but our atomic unit here is absolutely massive. This example shows why I think that your claims lack a definition of complexity. You're now saying that the output of a program determines its complexity. I don't think that's a useful measure of complexity because it doesn't allow us to compare the complexity of two programs that produce the same output.