The whole of the JavaScript language is built on one central data structure - the associative array. Objects in JavaScript are just associative arrays and this causes a lot of confusion at first. But ...

The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: "It's too big and too slow" (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won't want to read about the "new" ...

ITworld.com – An associative array, when implemented in Perl, has come to be known as a “hash” — a word that is also used to describe the digested value (i.e., the “message digest”) generated from a ...

Korn shell has had support for associative arrays (which python calls "dictionaries," and perl "hashes") for eons (well over a decade I think). I'll also be interested in whether bash 3.x fixes one ...