I find tuples and lists incredibly flexible, and I often get dirty looks from experienced devs in a particular language for not using their preferred methodolog

I find tuples and lists incredibly flexible, and I often get dirty looks from experienced devs in a particular language for not using their preferred methodology. For example, I end up creating hashes instead of new classes in Perl. Tuples in Python. I like to think it's a convenient abstraction, because I can use them in nearly any language - even C, sort of, with structs.