Data Structure
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On Sep 7, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
I'm leaning toward a coined term like "processing structure." A
processing structure is a active in that it does something. It's
also open in that it's a structure into which many different things
may fit.
Both a list and a genetic algorithm is a processing structure.
What do you think?
Having written that, what about active structure?
-- Russ
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]>
wrote:
OK. And Java and C# have the Collection Classes. STL and Collecition
Classes name a group. Is there a generic name for a prototypical
member of one of these groupings? The name should also be applicable
to generic code that implements the Genetic Algorithm.
Perhaps there just isn't such a word.
-- Russ
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-
farm.net> wrote:
But not too generic. Just generic enough. You seem to be difficult
to please.
What you appear to be asking for is exactly that the STL brought to C
++. The Standard Template Library: a completely generic yet well-
specified set of containers for any kind of data object, providing
the ability to specialize iterators thus allowing the developer to
do whatever he wants to the contained data objects.
--Doug
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]>
wrote:
Glenn,
I'm missing the connection between undecidable and what I'm asking
for.I don't want a property of these things; I want a generic name
for them.
-- Russ
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:42 PM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]
> wrote:
Thus spake Russ Abbott circa 09/07/2009 12:14 PM:
> This is to the programmers on this list.
>
> I'm looking for a word that refers generically to software that is
open to
> virtually object in its host language. The best way for me to
explain it is
> with examples.
How about "undecidable"? Or perhaps "semidecidable"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)
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