So I wrote this a while back, posted it elsewhere, then forgot about it, until I was reminded the day before yesterday that this wouldn’t be all out of place here, either. So let’s talk about a TV show that I found really disappointing once more: Agents of SHIELD.
I am wondering whether the data structure “tree” might be a giant mistake in the history of computer science. Almost everything that can be saved in a tree is really a DAG.
When I bought my first Mac in 2002 (an eMac with 700 MHz G4), I considered myself a late-comer to the party. Today, in most groups of Mac users, I am among the one who has been using one the longest.