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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:29:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: <vh0dqe$1p1ec$1@dont-email.me> References: <uu54la$3su5b$6@dont-email.me> <87edbtz43p.fsf@tudado.org> <0d2cnVzOmbD6f4z7nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <uusur7$2hm6p$1@dont-email.me> <vdf096$2c9hb$8@dont-email.me> <87a5fdj7f2.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <ve83q2$33dfe$1@dont-email.me> <vgsbrv$sko5$1@dont-email.me> <vgtslt$16754$1@dont-email.me> <vgv6qr$1h7ol$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:29:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c4ae03b8c5b109994837b0ca20032955"; logging-data="1869260"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+O0jx/R+VTzq7VRCMCrxdQ" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o21ezjV2VU/Ygf73pFvy74ocokQ= Bytes: 1724 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.