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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:39:48 MST
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:53:08 -0700
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
From: bobalex@netcom.com (Bob Alexander)
Subject: Re: Perl v. Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
For those of you Perl fans who won't touch Icon because it doesn't have
regular expressions, here's a bulletin:
There is a full implementation of Perl regular expressions in the Icon
program library (procs/regexp.icn).
I am the author of that procedure library -- however, I can count on half
of the fingers on one hand the number of times that I've used it. I much
prefer Icon string scanning, even though it's not as terse.
The regular expression stuff was lots of fun to write in Icon. Perl fans:
try writing Icon's string scanning in Perl. Even if you can do it, I'd bet
it won't be much fun :-)
Bob Alexander
bobalex@netcom.com