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kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) wrote:

>Today, I wouldn't think of designing a language without decent
>arrays.

Why?  What makes arrays more important that lists or maps? This wss one of my
pet peeves with Ada83 -- it provided very nice array support, but nothing
else.  This just encouraged mediocre Ada programmers to solve every problem
with an array, even when another structure would have been considerably faster
and easier to use.