Talk:Record (computer science)

Call Detail Record
For some reason, the wikipedia page for Call Detail Record redirects here. It should not. A call detail record is a specific type of information stored by telecom companies. It is often used in computer science / EE / etc. research for machine learning, etc. It is also used for telecommunications billing. Google seems to believe there is a separate wikipedia page for this, as the google "blurb" matches my description, and not the "record (computer science)" description. I'm a newbie here so... how do we fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.59.22.143 (talk) 21:39, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

"C tutorial"
To the anonymous IP who in their edit summary said "Does this C tutorial really belong here anyway?", I think it shouldn't be. The abstract description says about the same amount about records in a much more widely applicable way in about two sentences. Maybe it could be made more newbie-friendly, but there's no need to do more than mention that C has support for records and that they're called structs. This is why I made the rather drastic change I did. I suspect this was the result of a merge of some sort. Deco 06:15, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Retrieved old page from early 2005 to make a page on the notion of record type
This page used to redirect to object composition from spring 2005. I retrieved the old page to have a page on the notion of record type, notion that I could not find described elsewhere.

I'm still unclear whether it makes sense: Hugo Herbelin (talk) 14:57, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * to keep a reference to the record data structure in the article, a notion which is referred from the record disambiguation page,
 * to keep the page name record (computer science) rather than giving it a name record type.

Merge proposition
The retrieval was a good thing! I propose to merge it with "Storage record", which is a weirdly named stub. "Record" is a very basic computing concept, so I think we should point out the history and chronology (first of all). --Kubanczyk (talk) 20:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Use of the term "Pickling"
It may be beneficial to change the term Pickling to serialization as pickling is a python-specific word for serializattion which is unlikely to be understood by those not familiar with the Python language. I propose changing the word pickling to serialization and providing a link to the existing article Crippledsmurf (talk) 11:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC) 2A02:587:4109:3900:C527:40EF:5DFE:1493 (talk) 09:58, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

More names
Galzigler (talk) 21:53, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Shape (Hack)
 * Data class (Kotlin)
 * Case class (Scala)
 * Tuple (Swift) - Swift has "tuple"s with named fields