Once upon a time, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com said:
I was trying to think of which languages I know well which require even more difficult solutions than the Bash 4 one. It’s a pretty short list: assembly, C, and MS-DOS batch files. By “C” I’m including anything of its era and outlook: Pascal, Fortran…
Heh, even C on SVR4 and newer (including POSIX from 2001) have pretty straight-forward hash routines: hcreate(), hsearch(), and hdestroy().