On Fri, 14 May 2010, Martin sent:

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|"On May 14, 9:23 am, aprogram...@nospam.org wrote:                           |
|> Hi,                                                                        |
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|> Can anyone recommend a good book or books on data structures? I couldn't   |
|> find an obvious news group to post in, but given Ada and Ada people have a |
|> software-engineering approach lacking in many other communities I figured  |
|> to ask here.                                                               |
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|> I understand and have implemented things like stacks, queues, and          |
|> linked-lists in various projects. I never learned about data structures    |
|> such as trees, and I'm sure there are many more I don't know about. I'm not|
|> interested in theory for the sake of theory, since I'm a practising        |
|> software designer. What I am interested in is having the right kit of tools|
|> so I can apply the correct solution to the job. So I need good, practical  |
|> sources rather than mathematical. I'm concerned about things such as       |
|> clarity and performance in the code I write.                               |
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|> I prefer to stay away from books choosing this or that programming language|
|> as the lexicon, although books in Ada would be acceptable because of Ada's |
|> clarity. Thanks for any and all suggestions.                               |
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|> Cheers.                                                                    |
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|Although neither is specific to Ada,                                         |
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|Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein"           |
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Despite having waffle and mathematics, that is a good book overall
with a large quantity of algorithms.

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|"and                                                                         |
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|Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Wirth                             |
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|are both excellent. CLRS's is positively encyclopedic, while Wirth's         |
|is an all time classic.                                                      |
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|Both available via Amazon, eBay or even book shops!!                         |
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|HTH                                                                          |
|-- Martin"                                                                   |
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A newer version was available for gratis on Wirth's website. I have
not read any version thereof.

Though it had a fake language based on Java without exceptions, the
third edition of "Computer Algorithms: Introduction to Design &
Analysis" by Sara Baase and Allen Van Gelder, published by Addison
Wesley, was very good.