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What is Associative Arrays in Computer Science (clj.social)
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What is Associative Arrays in Computer Science

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In computer science, an associative array, map, symbol table, or dictionary is an abstract data type that stores a collection of (key, value) pairs, such that each possible key appears at most once in the collection. In mathematical terms, an...

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[-] simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@planet @clojure Two errors in the first paragraph is not encouraging. An associative array does not necessarily support either a 'remove' or an 'insert' operation, and, indeed, in languages with immutable data, it supports neither.

What's worse, the entire article appears to have been lifted verbatim from Wikipedia.

The whole site appears to be an email harvesting scam.

[-] johnny@chaos.social 1 points 4 months ago

@simon_brooke @planet @clojure this is indeed spam. Good catch that it's plagiarising Wikipedia, didn't even notice it because it reeked so strongly of LLM (maybe asked an LLM to generate a blog post from the Wikipedia article?)

That said, the website itself is not to blame here, it's that one user (they seem to be posting lots of crap like this)

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