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in reply to If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

I've been doing a fair bit of programming in IDL (Interactive Data Lanaguage) lately ... and I'd have to say:

Maybe I've become inflexible after years of Perl programming, and the limitations aren't as bad as I think. (and I admit, IDL isn't intended for what I'm doing -- trying to write SOAP clients, whereas IDL is indended for heavy math work ... think Fortran with matrices)

So far, the only thing I've been able to bring into IDL from Perl is the concept of a mutable array (ie, a 'stack', where you can pop/push/shift/unshift), by using an object)

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Re^2: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:
by Ben Win Lue (Friar) on Oct 18, 2006 at 09:01 UTC
    I like your list much more than the official one!

    If I had to choose from your list, Hashes would be my choice!
    Other candidates: grep and map