At 01:04 AM 12/11/95 GMT, James Herod wrote:
>To add to what Bruce said, go to your local college or university that
>has a computer science department, and peruse the bookstore looking for
>books on algorithms and data structures.  You will want to examine the
>candidates for their treatment of (besides B-trees) AVL trees, balanced
>B-trees (B*-trees) and other arcana.  I agree with Bruce that Knuth is the
>court of last appeal in computing, but his treatises can be hard to
>read if what you want is a cookbook approach.  I'd take Bruce up on
>his offer.
 
Other than Knuth, I might suggest an old favourite from my Uni days:
        "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", Nicklaus Wirth,
        Prentice-Hall, 1975.
 
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