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Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
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On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 09:24 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:59:16 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  But why do we stop at arrays, instead of at binary trees or
> > doubly linked lists?
> 
> And why have we started at arrays? With their dopes, index types, slices
> etc?

I guess because of the ways computers were built, and used.

>  The least aggregation primitive is pair.

CAR + CDR?