From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dd4586b9dd51c602 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Randal Schwartz Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages Date: 1998/01/16 Message-ID: <8clnwgnv2z.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 316603296 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com References: <98011217550672@psavax.pwfl.com> <34BE4F53.4B56@gsfc.nasa.gov> To: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake 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," -- Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying Email: Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn@teleport.com) Web: My Home Page! Quote: "I'm telling you, if I could have five lines in my .sig, I would!" -- me