nemesis wrote:
> It's amazing you can nitpick and even pick a fight for tools you most 
> likely don't even care, Darren...


BTW, what tools do you think I'm fighting over?  You need to go back and 
reread the thread.

I say "PHP arrays have a feature that Python dicts don't." (More precisely, 
in spite of triple_r saying "And dictionaries? Outstanding.", that Python 
dictionaries are no different from bog-standard hashtables, unlike in some 
other languages.)

You are the one that turned it into "Python rulez! PHP Suxors! PHP is 
*wrong* and Python is *right*, and if you can't see that then a thousand 
years of mathematicians prove you're stupid!"

I wasn't turning it into a fight at all. I was just being polite and 
pretending you actually had a reason for turning it into a discussion rather 
than a cheerleading fest, including reading source code of each interpreter 
and commenting on the genetic lineage of the authors thereof.

Had you just said "The rest of Python rocks", or "unnecessary features 
universally applied can be inefficient", I would have agreed. But you said 
"this data structure is incorrect", implying there was something outside the 
API of the data structure that would be relevant to other data structures.

I like Python. It's my new favorite language, or will be once I get good at 
it. PHP is the suckiest language I've ever been forced to use, with 
essentially no redeeming qualities. (Worse even than C++ which *does* have 
many redeeming qualities. :-)

So don't give me this "you started a fight" crap just because I was polite 
and gave you the benefit of the doubt that you weren't trying to.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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