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Re:Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by girvo on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:24PM (#29733168)
We only apply that to strings though. float[] isn't a string of floats. And lots of languages have strings that aren't arrays of chars too, so I don't really think that's it either.

Where does string come from. How odd.

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Re:Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by housecarpenter on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:09AM (#29736411)
You do still hear people speaking of a string of bits, as well as a string of characters. I think the word "array" tends to be preferred for lists of numbers, since in its original sense in mathematics it was (and is) a synonym for "matrix". For lists of arbitrary objects I guess "array" won out by random chance, more or less.
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Re:Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by girvo on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:16AM (#29736458)
Really? Fascinating. I’ve not heard anyone call them that in my 20+ years of programming!
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