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Just for the record, I would like to reclaim authorship of that snippet of pseudocode from the DDJ discussion back then, quoted in the Python section that apparently started this whole page. :) No consequences other than to state it here for the record - that link is broken now, gone dead after DDJ moved their blog system to some "new implementation with new and exciting features" which included losing all the old contents apparently.
::: update: https://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/hamming-problem/228700538 not dead anymore. (web.archive.org has a copy, as well). [[User:WillNess|WillNess]] ([[User talk:WillNess|talk]]) 20:14, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Two interesting related observations. One, very minor, I can now explain the spaces in <code>x2=2*h[ i ];</code> in the quoted pseudo-code: the old blog system at DDJ would interpret [i] ... [/i] as markers for ''italics''. Another - for me, somewhat major - is that while I came up with that pseudo-code trying to translate the classic ''Haskell'' merging-the-mappings code back into something C-like in my mind, as it turns out, it is in ''almost exact verbatim correspondence'' with the original Dijkstra's code in his book (IIRC), which I stumbled upon much later, by chance! (I had a link to it somewhere, will add later.) Amazing how it came back in an almost exact loop, this idea, back to where it started - "to Haskell and back!". Interesting... :) [[User:WillNess|WillNess]] 21:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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