[erlang-questions] A modest proposal to eliminate tuples
Wojtek Narczyński
wojtek@REDACTED
Wed Aug 27 21:20:46 CEST 2014
On 27.08.2014 20:51, Dmitry Demeshchuk wrote:
> I, personally, think lists are obsolete too. Instead, everyone should
> just use maps for everything:
>
Use binary trees.
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/PP.pdf
"In an eloquent 2009 ICFP invited talk, Guy Steele harangued the
functional programming crowds to stop using lists and use sequences,
represented as balanced trees."
A list is just a perfectly imbalanced binary tree, after all.
--
Wojtek N.
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