Re: I don't like the intro page of the documentation.
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 06, 2013
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Right, but I think that you could argue that the datatype design as a whole is unique, even though it contains features from other languages.
I don't have any reasons to disagree with this.
Isn't using Java's Vectors and C#'s Lists way more complicated as well?
Java's Vectors were not generic and were superceded by Lists, which are.
They all are a lot more complicated though (as they are fully fledged object oriented classes with many methods implemented, as well as a number of fields containing metadata).
Can they easily contain arbitrary mixed data like sequences do?
The List classes of both languages can be typed (e.g. you can have a List<int> etc), and generally should be. However, a List<Object> is one way to create a heterogeneous list.
