Announcing PyCs, a new Python-like language on .Net

[Roy Smith]

Ville Vainio <ville at spammers.com> wrote:
> I imagine regexps have been around long before perl, though I might be
> wrong.

Regex's were around long before Perl.  I first saw regex in about 1977 
or so when I was learning Unix v6.  They were used extensively in ed, 
sed, grep, awk, and maybe a few other tools.  Perl grew up sometime in 
the 80's, in an attempt to unify all those tool (plus shell) into a 
single language.