Re: Data structures in java
Wesley Mesquita wrote:
On 6 fev, 23:47, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
Wesley Mesquita wrote:
Unless you have to explicity use Java, it is better to try
implementing your data structures in a low level language like C.
Ridiculous. How is Java's expression of such algorithms in any way inferior
to C's? If anything, it'll be clearer due to the lack of all those asterisks.
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Lew
Where am I used "inferior"? It was a suggestion, just it.
Where you said "it is better to try ... C", that implies by simple logical
transformation that Java is inferior. If A is better than B, then B is
inferior to A, by definition.
But I think nobody will implement such primitive data structures (like
a linked list) in Java for some real application, if someone does it,
problably will get a worse code than the one implemented in Java API.
The OP mentioned that this was a learning exercise, and already turned down
using API classes and methods for that reason.
Assuming that a particular "primitive data structure" like, say, a red-black
tree or a trie, doesn't already have a suitable implementation in the standard
API, one has little choice but to find a third-party library that does (such
as the Apache Commons Collections Java library), or to write it themselves.
In a real application.
Is there a reason why Java would not be suitable for that?
--
Lew
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