Re: adjustable array vs hash-table

On Jan 30, 6:01 pm, Xah Lee <x...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 30, 2:09 pm, Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blaze...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Allow me to rant.

First of all, in high-level langs there should be no such thingy/data-
type as hash-table. Since, as you observed, functionally they are just
array/list/sequence/aggregate (or whichma*** computer "scientists"
wants to call them).

Ok. I hope you feel better. We don't need your profanity.

Your post is rife with errors--too many to list. Arrays, lists,
strings, bitmaps, vectors, matrices, tuples, sequences, aggregates
(i.e. structs), hash tables, maps, and dictionaries are all
specialized realizations of _functions_ with varying performance
characteristics. Languages offer different combinations and
variations depending on their goals.
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