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How is a dictionary (key value) related to a hash?

2nd September 2013

My answer to How is a dictionary (key value) related to a hash? on Quora

The following terms describe essentially the same data structure across a number of different languages:

A Perl hash
A Ruby hash
A Python dictionary
A Java Map (an interface used by HashMap and others)
A Lua table
A JavaScript object (if you ignore object prototypes)

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