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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:34:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:43:48 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Lawrence" == Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> 
> Lawrence> Perl was the language that made regular expressions
> Lawrence> sexy. Because it made them easy to use.
> 
> I'm often reminded of this as I've been coding very little in Perl these
> days, and a lot more in languages like Dart, where the regex feels like
> a clumsy bolt-on rather than a proper first-class citizen.

Python has regexes as a bolt-on -- a library module, not a core part of 
the language. But I think the way it leverages the core language -- e.g. 
being able to iterate over pattern matches, and collecting information 
about matches in a “Match” object -- keeps it quite useful in a nicely 
functional way.