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in thread J2SE 5.0 new features are just sugar from Perl (and other similar languages).

  • Hashes: significant academic research before Perl got them. I'm not sure if anyone integrated them (or other types of associative arrays) so closely into the langauge before Perl did.
    • awk, at least.
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