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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:02:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
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> ...I have started to like to use as few tools as
> possible.

I entirely agree, there is too much to learn and you have to be selective;
however my selection is: sed, awk, C and sam (for impromptu, well, editing).

I cannot really comment directly on gready operators, I have never
knowingly used a system that provided them, and I have never found myself
needing features that Plan9's RE don't have.

Perhaps its a lack of vision on my part.

It is probably possible visualise problems that would be solved
much more simply on Plan9 than on Linux/BSD/etc. The bottom line
is that the designers of Plan9 took a different approach
to REs and as a result the systems are different.

-Steve