It frustrates me in picking up new languages as a non-CS-degreeèd person that many languages have different words for analogous structures.
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Like — *now* I understand some useful difference between a list (which is linked, right?) and an array (which is pre-allocated)
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but I still don’t entirely understand why Python calls it a “dictionary”, Ruby calls it a Hash, and Java a Map.
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a metaphor, an implementation detail, and an abstraction, respectively. Says a lot about the aesthetics of each language.
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