On 2005-04-19, Frank Heckenbach <frank@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Agree fully. The excellent, yet performant string sup****t is still one
of
>> the main attractions to me.
>
> Indeed, I think that some of the attraction of other languages
> (e.g., script languages) comes from their easier (syntactic) sup****t
> of other data structures such as lists and hash tables ...
Indeed. Though IMHO is a hash table type a premature optimization. What
one
wants in language is a map or a set, not a specific implementation of one.
I'd like to have some form of generic programming (in FPC) to solve this,
however doing this right, and in Wirthian spirit, costs really a lot of
time.
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