Regexes and Hashes as a native part of the syntax. Functional programming tools like grep and map. Closures. Closures. Closures. CPAN. CPAN. CPAN. OO when you want it, procedural when you want it. Closures closures closures. Regexes. CPAN.... Inline::C, POD, CPAN... Perlmonks.

Native hashes, grep, map, closures, OO/procedural combos and inline docs are hardly unique to Perl!

Having them all in one place - maybe :-)

In reply to Re^2: What's so unique about Perl? by adrianh
in thread What's so unique about Perl? by Ido

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