>>"like the hashtable in java" People don't give a reference to a language feature only because it added/invented it but also because it is a popular one that many are familiar with.
Java did not invent HashTables. They existed long before and were available to most languages before Java. Neither is it even a Java programming language feature (it's a class in it's standard library). Actually, I can't think off the top of my head, any feature in the Java language (and I am making no assertions about the implementation of specific instances) that was truly innovative. But that's OK. Incremental is good. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
