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Re. join, I think Perl got that one right: `join(glue, pieces)`. `','.join(pieces)` just seems unnecessarily weird, and present simply for OO's sake. Not everything needs to be som…

Python is the least-worst general purpose imperative not-performance-critical OO scripting language. It has lots of problems (weird scoping, community issues, roundabout docs, `''.…

> > > Traditional hash tables are imperative data structures, and Lisp code (or Scheme code, at least) typically does not use them because of this. Association lists, which can be …

> Traditional hash tables are imperative data structures, and Lisp code (or Scheme code, at least) typically does not use them because of this. I don't understand that. > Associati…

The one thing that keeps me away from Lisp/Scheme is the lack of built-in syntax for hashmaps and sets (I like Clojure's syntax, but don't want the JVM). I've never gotten the hang…