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Re:Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim ... by alayne on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:36AM (#8100698)
It's hard to take people seriously who suggest Haskell as a good language for general scripting. That's some powerful religion.
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Re:Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim ... by hderms on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @10:04AM (#8102259)
Yeah, "stringly-typed" isn't really a problem when you're mostly dealing with files made up of strings/lines. Interfacing between programs and files which output mostly idiosyncratic output over an interface of files and strings isn't really made any easier or more robust by using a heavy type system and functional purity...
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