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		hamidr on Jan 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's new in purely functional data structures si... Why there's no updated book out there (in the cold!) ?

cmarschner on Jan 18, 2014 [–]

See here why not: http://okasaki.blogspot.de/2008/02/ten-years-of-purely-funct...

keithpeter on Jan 18, 2014 | [–]

"That changed one day during a walk in the snow."

The paragraph that follows this phrase in the OA is straight out of The psychology of invention in the mathematical field by Jacques Hadamard.

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