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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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  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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