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I see this a lot with functional programmers and linked lists. Yeah you can derive a lot of data structures from a list, but sometimes it's like putting a squar

by anaphor 13y ago

I see this a lot with functional programmers and linked lists. Yeah you can derive a lot of data structures from a list, but sometimes it's like putting a square peg into a round hole, and a custom data structure would be more efficient.

nbouscal 13y ago
As far as I can tell, only hobbyist functional programmers try to make everything work with linked lists. Most people who write in functional languages professionally know to use the correct data structure for the job, and how to do so (the most common educational resource being Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures).