Thoughts regular expressions in, for example sed

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/1/12 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>:
> On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 19:21 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> 2013/1/12 Hormatzhan Yiltiz <hyiltiz at gmail.com>:
>> > That is, of course, is not something that we want. AT MOST, it can be
>> > just deemed as a feature for *sed*, or even installing the core system is
>> > out of the question.
>> > In this case, I strongly agree with Paul.
>>
>> Anyway, I think it could happen if it is created from scratch as
>> something entirely new with another name, not supposed to be
>> compatible with anything. If it's good and consistent (and known…),
>> people might want to use it
>
> But we already have that.
>
> That's what I've been saying all week: learn to use Perl.  Or Python.
> Or Lua, Ruby, etc. etc.

I don't know where you live, but you have short weeks there… (first
message of this thread was sent ≈ 22 hours ago, according to Google).
:P

I guess I could benefit from learning Python, at least. I'll do some searchings.
Thanks.


Johnny Rosenberg


>
> If you want to learn UNIX tools like sed, grep, and awk, then learn them
> as they are, they won't change... that's precisely why people use them!
> If you want to learn something completely different, there are PLENTY of
> options that already exist.
>
>> >> 2013/1/12 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>:
>> >> > On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:05 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> >> >> Maybe it's time for ”the next version” (total remake) of the whole
>> >> >> concept of regular expressions and give it a few decades.
>> >> >> The old ”version” could then be referred to as ”regular exceptions”…
>> >> >
>> >> > So, no, not gonna happen.
>> >>
>> >> That's because everyone says that it's not going to happen…
>> >> People said that about lots of things 30 years ago, and many of those
>> >> things doesn't even exist today…
>
> But many still do... such as many UNIX tools.  Sed and awk, for example,
> are almost 35 years old.
>
>
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