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by cushychicken 828 days ago
Right there with you.

No language even comes close to Perl’s regex support. First class support for regexes as programming tools, and unparalleled speed.
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macintux 828 days ago
I attended Sun’s road show announcing Java to the world in 1996 (IIRC) and when I asked about regular expression support, I was shocked that it not only didn’t have it built into the language syntax, it wasn’t even available in the library.

As a die-hard Perl fan, that seemed a ridiculous oversight for a language being promoted for Internet programming.

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cushychicken 828 days ago
not only didn’t have it built into the language syntax, it wasn’t even available in the library.

Did not know that about the first Java release. That shit is bananas.

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