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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:29:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:23:38 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> On 11.11.2024 22:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Perl was the language that made regular expressions sexy. Because it
>> made them easy to use.
> 
> ... Unix was supporting Chomsky-3
> Regular Expressions with a syntax that is still used in contemporary
> languages.

Not in anything resembling a general-purpose high-level language. That’s 
what Perl pioneered.