Now You're Thinking With Needles

This week, I stumbled across the website of Edward S. Lowry, a retired software developer who believes he has created the perfect data structure. He calls this structure the "Needle" (after pine needles), and it looks like this: A person and their age, represented by needles In Lowry's system, everything is a needle . Types are needles, entities are needles, relationships are needles, and even…