This paperexamines theclasshierarchyindex, nested-attributeindex, pathindexandmultiindex, andputs forward the correspondingalgorithmsofindexmaintenance.
As my investment banker friends pointed out--not without considerable caveats--since its inception, the Nasdaq index has followed an exponential path--one that is remarkably like Moore's Law.
If we think of the last six months as a temporary setback, and put Nasdaq back on that path, beginning with this summer, the index begins to go nearly straight up.