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 pts · 2y
@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 pts · 2y
@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)