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From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT.Regpat problem.
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:20:14 +0100
Date: 2011-03-24T17:20:15+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8b6f3f$0$6984$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5exbsdc3coio.1ke3vi3sk7ss4.dlg@40tude.net>

On 24.03.11 15:34, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> BTW,  there recently was an article criticizing overuse of REs in UNIX,
> suggesting SNOBOL-like patterns instead.

That's odd.  The creators of SNOBOL-4 and SPITBOL have
always say, "Don't use patterns!"

(Debugging clever uses of patterns isn't fun, all
the more when the patterns are powerful.)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-22 18:35 GNAT.Regpat problem Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-22 19:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-22 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-22 19:21 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-22 20:31   ` Simon Wright
2011-03-24 10:23     ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-24 10:43       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 14:04         ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-24 14:34           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 16:20             ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2011-03-24 17:37               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 21:12             ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-25  9:02               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 16:41           ` Georg Bauhaus
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