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Re: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

by nicholasrperez (Monk)
on Oct 20, 2006 at 12:16 UTC ( [id://579559]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

I think the biggest thing I miss the most when developing in other languages is the lack of built-in complex data structures. Want a hash? Instantiate a new one from the class library (which isn't always obvious since the names are different). Try a simple HoAoH or something equally trivial for Perl in a language like C#. You'll be casting yourself to death just to get one of the bottom children elements. Think C# 2.0 will help you? Sure, you rid yourself of the headache of casting, but you have silly looking things like
Dictionary<string,List<Dictionary<string, MyObject>>> HoAoH = new Dict +ionary<string,List<Dictionary<string, MyObject>>>();
How many angle brackets do YOU see? I think people take built-in complex data structures for granted more than any other feature in Perl

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