data structures

On Hyperpolyglot.org there's an interesting listing of scripting language syntax - PHP, Python, Ruby and Perl - showing some of their common syntax and data structures side by side.

Sections of the reference sheet include

Systhread: "Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.

Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming"

Available for PHP Extension Writing

London, UK Monday, March 15th 2010, 12:28 GMT

Slightly more than a month ago I left my job as team-lead of eZ Components at eZ Systems behind, to focus on something new.

In this new article on his blog Fabien Potencier looks at the current state of the YAML markup language and how well it's supported in the world of PHP.

Linux Magazine: "Calling redis a key/value store doesn’t quite due it justice. It’s better thought of as a “data structures” server that supports several native data types and operations on them."

LWN.net: "In this final article we will be looking at just one design pattern. We started with the fine details of reference counting, zoomed out to look at whole data structures, and now move to the even larger perspective of designing subsystems."

LWN.net: "This week we will look at a very different aspect of coding and see why the kernel has special needs, and how those needs have been addressed by successful approaches.

The topic under the microscope today is complex data structures."