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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At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
—Igor Sikorsky, reported in
AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.
