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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
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In article <a9p63b$71q$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> "Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:3CBF5244.93CD9323@san.rr.com...
>>
>> In other words, a "map" is the API to a hash table or a search tree or
>> etc. You can implement them with trees, hash tables, linear lists,
>> whatever.
>>
> 
> Don't forget ISAM files. :-)

Funny you should mention that.  I am currently working on a program
that does such ordered lookups on temporary data read into the program,
and I did not even consider the possibility of using (virtual) memory
to store it, since I do not want to make assumptions regarding how much
data there will be.  ISAM files are just a natural fit.  If you tell me
that what you are calling "maps" are a portable way of doing that, I
suppose that would be useful, although using files directly is fine
with me.