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0 pointssmabie5y ago0 comments

Super common? Main data structure in Scala, any kind of Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, etc. Linked lists are a functional programmer's goto data structure.

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pfundstein5y ago· 2 in thread

Well that would explain why I've only encountered them in C.

C is the only language where they're called "linked lists"; everything else just calls them "lists".

pjmlp5y ago

Nope, plenty of literature refers to them as linked lists.

Here is an article about them in Modula-2, to use a language of similar age as C.

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