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From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Mon,  4 May 2009 19:42:15 +0000
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"ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage
of the power of Perl's regular expressions."

Forgive my ignorance and irrelevance to this topic,
but what are the advantages of Perl's regular
expressions, over the implementation we have
currently in Plan 9?


Thanks,
ak

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Mathieu Lonjaret
<mathieu.lonjaret at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just because reviving old threads is fun...
> I've just found out about this:
>
> http://betterthangrep.com/
>
> it does not seem to work out of the box (expecting some unix paths), but
> since there's a perl port and that thing is supposed to be more or
> less self contained (for the standalone version), maybe it's not too
> much work for someone interested enough.
>
> Cheers,
> Mathieu
>
>
>