in reply to If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:
I've got to vote for the missing "hashes" and the equally missing regex (what do you mean I can't vote twice? This is America...oh, never mind).
Heredocs are also nice. Some of the other listed features are not unique to Perl (I'm thinking array slices). qw is nice (it reduces wear on the quote key on the keyboard).
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