Ed Schaefer explores associated arrays on Unix Review. "Associative arrays are a staple of Unix productivity tools, as well as the modern ksh-style shells, ksh, bash, zsh, etc. This month, Charles ...

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 ...