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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" Ada on StackOverflow
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"John Perry" <john.perry@usm.edu> wrote in message 
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> On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 4:25:09 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> Did you try implementing that with the Tree container as opposed to using 
>> a
>> raw nodes?
>
> No; I was just translating the C++ version. It uses a custom container,
>and I thought the point was to imitate that. [glances at Rationale for Ada
> 2012] Are we talking about multiway trees here? I don't see any trees 
> otherwise.

Yes, of course. The multiway tree is a generalization of more specific types 
like a binary tree. It's really a tree of lists, and most real-world trees 
(like HTML, parse trees, etc.) map easily to it.

                    Randy.