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Engineers avoiding hash tables, yes, that's one myth. Still waiting for the other four promised in the headline. In the age of javascript everywhere I'd say tha
by usrusr 10y ago
Engineers avoiding hash tables, yes, that's one myth. Still waiting for the other four promised in the headline. In the age of javascript everywhere I'd say that hash tables have pretty much won.
I was curious about which corner of software technology the author was coming from where hash tables are routinely questioned (embedded C maybe?), but even the followup post does not quite explain it. ( https://hughewilliams.com/2013/06/03/reflecting-on-my-hash-table-post/ https://hughewilliams.com/2013/06/03/reflecting-on-my-hash-t... , also references a previous hn discussion)
- masklinn 10y ago> In the age of javascript everywhere I'd say that hash tables have pretty much won. All of Lua, PHP, Ruby and Python are hash tables flying around, and pretty much everything web is going to involve tons of hashtables whatever your language as HTTP headers, QS parameters and form-encoded data have arbitrary named fields.
- usrusr 10y agoMakes me wonder if today's Lisps are actually "Hasps" in disguise. (unwritten rule of hn: don't post terrible puns like this before the majority of voting is over)