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On 8/24/2024 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:50:51 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>> This is one of the many reasons I like PERL.
> 
> Perl completely changed the game with its combination of good regular
> expressions, good string handling, and good data structures as well. I
> credit Perl with popularizing the whole concept of regular expressions:
> before that, they were considered something esoteric.
> 
> For example, BASIC was considered to have good string-handling facilities.
> But it never had good regular expressions or hash tables; and the coming
> of Perl made BASIC look quite old-fashioned indeed.

80's and early 90's Basic flavors (and that include VMS Basic)
did not have those.

But later MS Basic flavors did have them:
* VB/VBS/VBA has RegExp class and Scripting.Dictionary
   COM class
* VB.NET has System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex and
   System.Collections.Hashtable (later replaced by
   System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary)

Arne