[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/5/2021 1:04 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/5/2021 12:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> I'm not exactly sure just what "nested associative arrays" might be. 
>> Perhaps it's just the terminology.
> 
> nested array = array where at least one element is another array
> 
> associative array = array where elements are accessed via keys instead
> of consecutive numerical indexes (an in-memory only index-sequential
> "file").

In many programming languages they are called dictionaries or maps.

Arne