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Re:App: Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on st... by adr1an on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:32AM (#38110071)
RegEx probably, since raku is perl 6 afaik.
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Re:App: Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on st... by dartos on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:35AM (#38110095)
Yeah it’s basically a language purpose made for matching text
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Re:App: Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on st... by gmueckl on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:28AM (#38111425)
It has evolved to be much, much more. It is a somewhat pragmatic, powerful, malleable multi-paradigm language that can be (has been) applied to many use cases beyond text processing. I am only vaguely familiar with the language, but I'm often impressed by examples of it's power and expressiveness.
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