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On 5/12/23 13:50, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
And Cobol had them 63 years ago.