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by mamcx 1846 days ago
> , while I believe in 2021 it should be seen as one of the necessary everyday high-level datatypes.

And I add that just the datatype is not enough, because is "this close" to be the foundation for relational programming (p.d: I'm building a relational language where you can say everything is alike data-frames/relations: https://tablam.org).

> It is mostly thought as "some special scientific thing"

This is part of the problem, truly. Being so focused on "science" when I think is better to frame it as data manipulation like you do in SQL tables/views, making it much more general than is used for...