I'd absolutely miss map and grep. Those are the first two things that came to mind (and the most missed when I had to do Java). Following that, I'd put regexes, statement modifiers, the convenience of the data structures (Oh, sure you can malloc memory and build a dynamically sized array in C, but when the language does that for you, why would you want to try to build a hammer out of a rock and some a stick?), and many of the other things that make Perl Perl. The "TMTOWTDI" philosophy probably sums it up best, though.

Ivan Heffner
Sr. Software Engineer, DAS Lead
WhitePages.com, Inc.

In reply to Re: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be: by Codon
in thread If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be: by grinder

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