10 Dates and times
Programming languages’ core data structures reflect the types of information we work with on a regular basis. It makes sense that we’ll have numbers, because we use numbers a lot. We use lots of text, so strings make sense, as well. And of course we need collections of various sorts, so every language provides some of those—in the case of Python, we have lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, for starters.
Modern programming languages also support another type of data, one that we (as people) use on a regular basis but that wasn’t part of the programming canon when I started my career: dates and times. It seems obvious in retrospect that dates and times, which are such essential parts of our lives, should be a main part of ...
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