From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8589 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Glenn R. Williams" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: hi Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:54:58 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200207082155.03290.gloonie@telocity.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020708183035.02d2a048@server-1> <2012458027.20020709014025@iol.it> Reply-To: gloonie@telocity.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398982 28833 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:49:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Giuseppe Bilotta , Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <2012458027.20020709014025@iol.it> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8589 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8589 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'm curious about your comment that Python had very poor regex support. Were you looking at an older version of several years ago when you did the evaluation? Python has very full regex support (perl style), and the latest versions (> 1.6) use very quick algorithms - pcre). Just my two cents... Glenn On Monday 08 July 2002 07:40 pm, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Monday, July 8, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote: > > HH> Hi All, > > HH> Tomorrow i'll try to answers a couple of pending mails. Maybe i'll also > HH> post a draft of a few chapters of details.pdf to satisfy the manual > hunger. > > I'm posting here because of the generic content: > > some time ago we had some talk about a possible language > replacement for Perl. Python was investigated as a possible > choice, but it had very poor regex support. I'm now glancing > through Ruby (www.ruby-lang.org) and it smells like a very good > choice ... - -- Glenn R Williams - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mathematical theories are the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9KkJ2w/Wcp38R/MkRArPEAKCiizDSb8SdBrBzv2+ClZJX/hu0UgCfUWyA RsMhCRLDJ1SGrXtYLsRG63I= =W56a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----