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Re:Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it... by jwdunne on Sunday May 15, 2016 @05:50AM (#11700188)
Very true. Now you mention it, I wonder why, given the awesome power of extensibility, this hasn't been improved? Shouldn't it be trivial to write a DSL that makes string handling almost, if not as good as, Perl et al?
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Re:Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it... by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 15, 2016 @06:46AM (#11700361)
It is, which is probably why nobody bothered to put it in a library before. But you have CL-PPCRE, which is arguably the most performant and one of the most solid implementation of Perl-compatibile regular expressions out there.
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