http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2007/06/29/one-concept-many-names en-us 40 additions to a vast pool of entropy <p>Imagine an Abstract Datatype which consists of a collection of keys and a collection of values, and where each key is associated with one value. This <em>description</em> or <em>concept</em> I have just given is quite trivial to understand, at least that&#8217;s what one might think. What is interesting though is the fact that there are so many names for the same thing:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Map.html">Map</a></li> <li><a href="http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html#SECTION007500000000000000000">Dictionary</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookup_table">Lookup Table</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array">Associative Array</a></li> </ul> <p>There are some other prime examples in computer science where this is the case, if you find other interesting examples please feel free to send me an <a href="mailto:igor@bytelabs.org">email</a>.</p> Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:12:00 +0000 urn:uuid:2e6e2acc-55d8-44fb-a513-30b0bae95abe igor http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2007/06/29/one-concept-many-names Everyday Life Fun Stuff Hacking and Computers