thomas@ektools.UUCP (Thomas B. Kinsman) (12/09/88)
~~~ Please reply directly to the author. ~~~ Note: This is a language independent question. It may be cross posted. Note: This is a question on DESIGN, NOT on implementation. Question: Which books are frequently used as INITIAL references for algorithm design? Situation: Imagine you know what you want to do, and you are about to look in a book to see what methods have been used before. You aren't doing anything out of the mainstream like strange attractor modeling... You are about to do a search on a tree, a hashing function... i.e.: *** Which book do YOU go to first??? *** Reply: Please mail directly to ME. Serious responses only please. Results: I will post a list on December 22, 1988, and you can all tear it apart then. Thanks: In advance for all those that respond. Joke: "We asked two thousand Software Engineers, if stranded in orbit, which reference they would want to have along." Author: Thomas B. Kinsman ...rochester!kodak!ektools!thomas