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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by civility on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:50PM (#16983224)
Other folks complain about the lack of libraries. Personally, the two things which turn me off on Lua (luajit) are 1-based arrays and the conflation of hash-tables and array-lists into a single thing.
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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by hiccuphippo on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:28AM (#16983548)
I don't like how everybody invents their own class system.
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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by enriquto on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:23AM (#16983337)
> the conflation of hash-tables and array-lists into a single thing.

Precisely, one of the things that turns me off on Python (coming from Lua), is the unnatural proliferation of different container types.

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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by rrcaptain on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:39AM (#16983387)
Oddly that's one of the things I like most about python. The containers module has so many very useful things. Plus hash-tables and array-lists shouldn't ever really be the same thing.
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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by civility on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:37AM (#16983379)
To each their own :-)

You might like Tcl - associative arrays (hash tables), arrays (lists), strings, numbers, and code are all the one type (at least conceptually).

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