That's a lousy reason to not include them. Cars are used to much and people really should walk and bike and take the bus more, but we're not about to make cars

That's a lousy reason to not include them. Cars are used to much and people really should walk and bike and take the bus more, but we're not about to make cars more difficult to use because of that. Perl's embedding of regexes into the language syntax is a fantastic feature, as is the way captured groups can be assigned to a list. No other language comes close to making regexes usable. Javascript, which at least has a literal syntax for regex, is still awkward. And the other language I use the most, C#, has such a bad interface for getting captures that I get it wrong and have to look up the documentation EVERY SINGLE TIME I USE IT. I would compare regex as an add-on library in most languages to be as awkward as OOP as an add-on to Perl 5 was. At least Perl has corrected that; besides Javascript, have any other languages taken steps to make regexes easier to use?