From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
To: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/16
Date: 1998-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8clnwgnv2z.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34BE4F53.4B56@gsfc.nasa.gov
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
Stephen> I've never met anyone who could write regular expressions
Stephen> from memory; [...]
Stephen, I'm Randal Schwartz. Nice to meet you.
Now you can't say that any more.
:-)
Really, regex are not that hard. If you can remember the 425 keywords
of Ada, you can certainly remember the 10 operations of a regex. :-)
I have a series of columns online that go into that very topic... see
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/
print "Just another Perl hacker,"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-16 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-12 0:00 general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Randal Schwartz [this message]
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-01-05 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1998-01-09 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Randal Schwartz
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-09 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-08 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-09 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] <01bd1616$a9110b40$24326489@Westley-PC.calspan.com>
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
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