From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
To: Patrick M Doane <patrick@watson.org>,
Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml Development Kit
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:40:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326193736.02ac2640@shell16.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010326205436.83228A-100000@fledge.watson.or g>
> As much as I love Caml as a language, I have to admit that I've been less
>than pleased with the standard infrastructure for string manipulation.
Slightly off-topic, but anybody who's interested in string processing should read the bottom part of the interview with Ilya Zakharevich. He talks about how Perl's text processing is really not all that great, and he has a lot of good things to say. Here's a snippet. It would be a coup for Caml to have a module that supports some of these features before other languages:
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http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/ilya.html
Let me also mention that classifying the text handling facilities of Perl as "extremely agile" gives me the willies. Perl's regular expressions are indeed more convenient than in other languages. However, the lack of a lot of key text-processing ingredients makes Perl solutions for many averagely complicated tasks either extremely slow, or not easier to maintain than solutions in other languages (and in some cases both).
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Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-26 13:03 Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-03-27 2:12 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-03-27 3:15 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-27 6:48 ` [Caml-list] Streams Daniel de Rauglaudre
[not found] ` <3AC04E85.EE51D597@univ-savoie.fr>
2001-03-27 8:37 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-03-27 6:30 ` [Caml-list] Caml Development Kit Daniel de Rauglaudre
[not found] ` <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010326205436.83228A-100000@fledge.watson.or g>
2001-03-27 3:40 ` Chris Hecker [this message]
2001-03-27 18:54 ` Matthieu Villeneuve
2001-03-27 3:47 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-03-27 7:33 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-03-27 9:36 Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-03-27 18:42 ` Dale Arntson
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