From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA03137; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:39:37 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA03152 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:39:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp4-cm.mail.eni.net (smtp4-cm.mail.eni.net [216.133.226.137]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f2R3dYn10013; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:39:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from checkerlap.d6.com (node-d8e9cca2.powerinter.net [216.233.204.162]) by smtp4-cm.mail.eni.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28435; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:39:30 -0800 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326193736.02ac2640@shell16.ba.best.com> X-Sender: def6@shell16.ba.best.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:40:08 -0800 To: Patrick M Doane , Fabrice Le Fessant From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml Development Kit Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: References: <15039.15898.748515.834915@cremant.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > 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: --------- 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). ... --------- Chris ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr