That was my high school programming fun - implement linked lists and other data structures in TurboPascal. Pascal is a language that does not come with dynamic

That was my high school programming fun - implement linked lists and other data structures in TurboPascal. Pascal is a language that does not come with dynamic lists, only fixed size arrays and memory allocations. I had to build linked lists just to have a decent list primitive. A few years later I discovered Perl that comes with dynamic size lists, dictionaries and strings. Whoa, that was a treat, so very nice to use and efficient. To this day I prefer constructs made of lists and dicts 10x more than defining classes.