OH: Many people complain that I make the same joke over and over, but in keeping with the Unix philosophy, I tell one joke and tell it well.
@EyalL "who needs hashes when you have lists/tuples" is the attitude that held Lisp back for so long, IMO /cc @richhickey
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@bascule@richhickey I'm not saying avoid hash tables, I'm saying his list of data structures seems arbitrary and weird. -
@EyalL@richhickey after having to deal with Erlang JSON libraries that parse JSON objects to Erlang proplists, all I can say is AAAAARGH!!!
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@bascule@richhickey you misunderstand, hash tables are composed of arrays. Read the original tweet which refers to compositions. -
@EyalL you misunderstand the "first-class" part of@richhickey's assertion that FIRST CLASS ASSOCIATIVE DATA STRUCTURES RULE
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