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Re:Python Is Eating the World by pvg on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:25AM (#20672926)
If Python is so great how come it can't even express a decent data structure that it needs?

I'm sure you know this is a deliberate design choice/tradeoff. It's arguably turned out to be a bit of a millstone for languages that eventually want to grow up to be general-purpose-ish, but that wasn't as obvious at the time.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by KirinDave on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:27AM (#20672940)
Yes, I do. I admit, that was uncharitable of me.

I remember having similar conversations with the creator of Io and seeing the Pike mailing list have similar concerns. Hindsight is 20/20.

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