There's an underlying thread here about language usability and the tendency to name things for how they work vs usedhttps://twitter.com/shu/status/755439073045602304 …
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@EmilyGorcenski Agreed, and I think that it makes some assumptions about what information will be most useful to a user of the language.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@EmilyGorcenski Ex., if I know that “HashMap” is a specific implementation and I have expectations around that, I can maybe program better.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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IMO, a good language would make it easy to refactor from one data structure to another for the times when performance matters
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