Tango Developer's Journal 1 of 4 One problem I've always come up against when developing an application is finding a standard way to manage different lists of data associated with diverse areas of the programming solution.
Various applications require simple lists such as pop-up menus and selection lists on HTML forms.
The problem occurs when you have several different systems managing each of these areas. Storing the values for a pop-up menu in one place and different lists in another can make this task unmanageable. To organize this data efficiently we'll use a concept taken from structured programming languages called linked lists. I should clarify that we're actually going to discuss a simple form of linked lists called single linked lists. This concept allows us to build a single code base that manages all of our list data in one data model.