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[โ€“] SolNine@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

List and Array terminology also bothers me ... Why not just call it an array?

[โ€“] Pyro@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

But python lists are not like the base arrays in other languages. They function more like List<> or vector (C++ had to be special) and are named appropriately.