Lumifer comments on Open Thread, October 13 - 19, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I don't think this idea works.
Pointers in C aren't data structures -- they are a low-level tool for constructing data structures. Neither closures nor regexps are "data structures". And Perl was historically well-known for relying on hashes which you assigned to Python as dicts.
Certainly each programming language has a "native" programming style that it usually does better than other languages -- but that's a different thing.