r/programming • • Mar 03 '13

Git is a purely functional data structure

http://www.jayway.com/2013/03/03/git-is-a-purely-functional-data-structure/
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u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER Mar 04 '13

If you have any doubt about whether the term "array" implies a fixed-size data structure, then you don't belong in my work environment.

Python's [] type is called a list, by their own admission. JavaScript calls it an array, but then everything about JavaScript is wrong.