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From: lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: recap so far
Message-ID: <1990Jul4.011602.14180@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 4 Jul 90 01:16:02 GMT
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In article <5312@stpstn.UUCP> andyk@stpstn.UUCP (Andy Klapper) writes:
>Smalltalk, Objective-C and I would be willing to bet other OOP and OOP
>like languages, have a set of basic data structure objects (Sets, stacks,
>...) including a sorted collection that uses quicksort.  It would seem
>that you have been looking in the wrong place.

Add Common Lisp to the list.  Its set of built-in datatypes
includes exact rational numbers (with a numerator and denominator,
of arbitrary sizes), adjustable arrays, hash tables, conditions
(exception objects), generic functions (sets of methods with the
same selector), etc.


	Lawrence G. Mayka
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	lgm@iexist.att.com

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