Thoughts regular expressions in, for example sed

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/1/12 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>:
> On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 05:03 +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote:
>> I suppose this thread can be marded as *solved*.
>
> Agree.

Agree too. I think it happened already in the second reply, which
doesn't mean that everything after that was useless information,
though…

>
>>         > Anyway, I think it could happen if it is created from
>>         scratch as
>>         > something entirely new with another name, not supposed to be
>>
>> I figured out what Johnny means here.  For that entirely new thing, we
>> need theoretical structures where it specifies the structure of
>> language and specification (as, by the way, what regualer expressions
>> do).
>
> The first thing that must be done is justify why all the other
> alternatives that already exist are not sufficient, such that we should
> invent something entirely new.

There are some people in the world who create things ”just for fun”…
I am a very bad programmer myself (in fact I am not a programmer at
all), so everything I do I do either just for fun or for learning. But
I do small stuff only. I'm more of a musician, kind of. Not good at
that either, but I try…

>
> Larry Wall (inventor of Perl), for example, is an accomplished linguist
> and has thought long and hard about the theory and implementation of
> natural languages in the design of Perl.  I've created a few small DSL's
> (domain-specific languages) in my day and I'm quite confident that I, at
> least, couldn't do better than Larry.

Is today's version of Perl a one man job? I have never used Perl, and
I don't know much about it.


Johnny Rosenberg