Re:Erik Meijer: The World According to LINQ
by _delirium on Saturday September 03, 2011 @05:54PM
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True, although Plan9 pushed that part of the Unix philosophy even further, towards where it arguably handles some of those more general cases as well, with "structural regexes" that work on things other than collections of lines: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/
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Re:Erik Meijer: The World According to LINQ
by Jacob4u2 on Saturday September 03, 2011 @06:22PM
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Isn't the general consensus that regexes are hard to maintain and debug? I'm not sure that "structural regexes" are solving the right problem.
I think maybe we're not shooting at the same baskets though (basketball reference, apologies if you're not from US); I'm trying to write software applications, not shell scripts.