Re:Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
by jimsimmons on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:41AM
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Portability is an orthogonal concern. I agree with you that it's the reason regexes are the way they are but we could have also had better cross platform APIs.
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Re:Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
by Zababa on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:47AM
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Regexes are still better than cross platform APIs, they're an abstract concept. Just like you can implement a tree or a graph in any language and transfer your "tree skills" or your "graph skills", you can do so with regexes.