okasaki came first
haskell too had them (IntMap honestly works fine in that use case)
Yeah, “Purely Functional Data Structures” came out in 1996! I read most of it recently, when I needed a C++ copy-on-write hash map. It was still fairly relevant (although the “obvious” solution of a HAMT was also the one we decided on).
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Yeah, “Purely Functional Data Structures” came out in 1996! I read most of it recently, when I needed a C++ copy-on-write hash map. It was still fairly relevant (although the “obvious” solution of a HAMT was also the one we decided on).