Questions on Using Python to Teach Data Structures and Algorithms
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Sep 28 10:15:49 EDT 2006
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> efrat:
[...]
>
>>then why was the name "list" chosen?
>
>
> I'd too love to know why the wrong "list" name was chosen for them,
> instead of "array". (Maybe because "list" is shorter, or because ABC
> called them "lists"...)
>
I suspect it's because of their intrinsic one-dimensional nature.
regards
Steve
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