Data Structure:
A data structure is a construct within a programming language that stores a collection of data.
Before moving ahead a number of concepts must be understood
Data Type:
A data type is composed of two things
• Range of possible values
• Set of operations that can be performed on data.
Initially languages provided a non-extensible data type system. But as the benefits of software technology became clear, people started to apply technology to solve complex and diversified set of problems, thus a need for extensible data-type system was felt.
By extensible it is meant that apart from using the built-in data types of a language, programmers can use these types to create their own data types such data types.
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