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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 13:24:02 MST
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 18:15 CDT
From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: Re: Perl v. Icon
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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>PPP Regular expressions. This is the biggie as far as I'm concerned.
The sort of job where you're trying to parse incoming data which
has a slightly unknown syntax. By comparison, the Icon method
of lots of operators to scan across a string is seriously
clunky.
Personally, I think that SNOBOL4 patterns are much nicer and easier to use than
ICON string scanning for the kinds of things I do, too.
>(BTW the date I finally gave up on Icon is when I read in the Icon newsletter
that Ralph Griswold was never going to put REs into Icon)
This one is hysterical... like saying that you won't buy a car until they start
to attach a bridle on the hood, so you can tie your car to a hitching post after
parking it. :-) Proof, if any were necessary, as to just how hard old habits
die, no matter how ludicrous they are.
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/