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dlisboatoday at 12:37 AM0 repliesview on HN

Outside very simple programming techniques there is no such thing as well-established when it comes to PL. If one learns more than a handful of languages they’ll see multiple ways of doing the same thing.

As an example all three of the languages in the article have different error handling techniques, none of which are actually the most popular choice.

Built in data structures in particular, each language does them slightly differently to there’s no escaping learning their peculiarities.