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I would miss map and grep which are so powerful. Oh! and regular expressions if they weren't available.

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JohnGG

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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 hardburn (Abbot) on Oct 17, 2006 at 14:16 UTC

    The map and grep functions should be easy enough to implement in any reasonable language (BF is not a reasonable language) if it has anonymous subroutines.


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