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From: opalpa@gmail.com opalinski from opalpaweb on 29 Jan 2006 16:15 > I suspect I've used Perl a lot more and a lot longer than you. Maybe. Ten years here, on and off. > You aren't convincing anyone with the ridiculous examples you > provided Ridiculous? Hardly. I'm pleased with what will be recorded for posterity. > that Perl is all about regular expression parsing. In previous post I stated there is variaty to perl. Processing text, using regular expressions, is common. Opalinski opalpa(a)gmail.com http://www.geocities.com/opalpaweb/
From: opalpa@gmail.com opalinski from opalpaweb on 29 Jan 2006 16:22 I've been to CPAN many times. I like the variaty -- used MQ Series stuff from CPAN, used various time/date libraries from CPAN, FTP libs, etc. Yes, big variaty, I've stated this multiple times in this thread. > tell me what percentage of those modules are only for text processing. A lot less than the percentage of those modules that are used in programs which in part process text, using regular expressions. Opalinski opalpa(a)gmail.com http://www.geocities.com/opalpaweb/
From: Randal L. Schwartz on 29 Jan 2006 16:49 >>>>> "opalpa(a)gmail" == opalpa(a)gmail com opalinski from opalpaweb <opalpa(a)gmail.com> writes: opalpa(a)gmail> A lot less than the percentage of those modules that are used in opalpa(a)gmail> programs which in part process text, using regular expressions. Can't believe I'm getting sucked in to this, but... That's like saying Java is about *multiplication*. "Look how many Java programs perform multiplication! Nearly all of them!" And your point? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
From: Matt Garrish on 29 Jan 2006 17:11 <opalpa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1138569327.578755.286830(a)g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > >> that Perl is all about regular expression parsing. > > In previous post I stated there is variaty to perl. Processing text, > using regular expressions, is common. > Then why are you jumping in here to defend the claim that that is all Perl is? Your examples are ridiculous because they're so limited to you. Did you stop and consider that few admin tasks that can be done in Perl ever need regex processing? That few database applications need regex processing? That few web pages or web tools that can be written in Perl ever need regex processing? As Uri tried to explain to you, it's a lot of FUD. Out of curiosity, though, because I can write regexes in Java, and often process text when I write Java programs, does that make Java simply a text processing language? Who cares what anyone else does with the language; my experience supersedes all. Beginning to see why defending a fool makes you look like a fool? There is no such English word as variaty, by the way. Matt
From: Matt Garrish on 29 Jan 2006 17:21
"Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com> wrote in message news:863bj6ln5t.fsf(a)blue.stonehenge.com... >>>>>> "opalpa(a)gmail" == opalpa(a)gmail com opalinski from opalpaweb >>>>>> <opalpa(a)gmail.com> writes: > > opalpa(a)gmail> A lot less than the percentage of those modules that are > used in > opalpa(a)gmail> programs which in part process text, using regular > expressions. > > Can't believe I'm getting sucked in to this, but... > I know. I shouldn't have gotten sucked in by the idiocy of the original comment, but such gross over-simplifications are an anathema to me... : ) Matt |