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Java 14 now have "Record" !

" records are meant to be data carriers"

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/java-records-class

And Python 3.7 now has records, they call it "data class"

https://realpython.com/python-data-classes/

"One new and exciting feature coming in Python 3.7 is the data class.
A data class is a class typically containing mainly data"

What took them so long? Pascal and Ada had records
from day one, only 40 years ago or so.

--Nasser