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- From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Subject: Re: AVL trees - Re: Why Are Red-Black Trees Obscure?
- In-Reply-To: orpheus@reed.edu's message of 2 Sep 92 02: 22:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.103526.20072@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:35:26 GMT
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- In <1992Sep2.022227.9117@reed.edu> orpheus@reed.edu writes:
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- > Another good example is trying to reverse engineer the Fibonacci priority
- > queue from LEDA, which I seem to remember is coded in C++ with commentary
- > in German. (Why is there so much sexy code out there commented in German?
- > I've taken a bunch of natural languages, but German just doesn't happen to
- > be one of them, and it's the only one I have an immediate use for.)
-
- An interesting question, in Germany too: Which *natural* language to
- use? Many people write their comments in English, but there are some
- (esp. in the academic environment) who do everything in German, to
- (allegedly) 'enhance understandability' (which is not true in most
- cases) or just to keep hold on the use of German. But not
- understanding the language is always a problem. If you want to study
- Informatik (Computer Science) in Germany and don't know English,
- you'll get into trouble.
- MfG,
- Olaf
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- Olaf Titz - comp.sc.student - Univ of Karlsruhe - s_titz@iravcl.ira.uka.de -
- uknf@dkauni2.bitnet - praetorius@irc - +49-721-60439 - did i forget something?
- One frequently hears horror expressed that a 2M byte machine may have 400K
- devoted to its operating system. - Fred Brooks (1975)
-