From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010718235706.235C4199EA@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:57:01 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0a6d540-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I believe - if you think my opinion is relevant about a program I wrote 15 years ago but haven't used much for the last 7 or 8 - that sam has two major advantages: 1) Structural regular expressions, and the command language that derives from them. 2) Sam -r Advantage 1) feels cool and makes a difference when you're working on a problem; advantage 2) is the deep, structural improvement that trumps all else. -rob