It is funny question because I think most languages get string processing right. Pascal gets it right.

Except C.

But BSTR, too, is a C construct.

In FORTRAN, thank you.

(It was a long time ago, and there was no C compiler on our IBM/370...)

TCL is basically THE string processing language... because everything is a string :p.

For short scripts, awk is nice, but most people would use Python nowadays, and die hard Unix greybeards will use Perl or TCL depending on the mood.

Version 8.4 changed it a bit.