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

Some of the other listed features are not unique to Perl

Few if any are. In fact, the three you say you'd miss the most aren't unique to Perl.

Perl is great because is has them all (and much more, of course) and because they are easy to use.

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Re^3: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:
by swampyankee (Parson) on Oct 19, 2006 at 17:20 UTC

    I've used awk, which does have hashes and regex. sed has regex, but I'm not sure I'd call it a "language". I know there are others with both features (VBS, JavaScript, Java...) and I could write libraries to replicate either.

    Leaving out Perl's formats -- I tend to think the format statement in Perl is pretty lame (I find printf much more useful. imho, Perl's format compares quite unfavorably with Fortran's format) -- I really would miss most of the features in the poll; I've just used hashes and regex more often than any of the other features, so I would miss them more.

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