Choosing a programming language as a competitive tool

[Grant Edwards]

In article <9d5nug045j at news2.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli wrote:

>> "dictionary" as used in Python?
>
>I'm not aware of any programming language predating Python that
>calls its mappings "dictionaries"

IIRC, Smalltalk used dictionary to describe the same sort of
thing as does python -- but it's been almost 10 years since
I've done any Smalltalk stuff.

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