The Importance of Terminology's Quality

Lew lew at lewscanon.com
Thu May 8 06:53:36 EDT 2008


Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
> I have my own gripe against regular expressions ("regex" for short).
> I hate the extremely terse format, with horrible concoctions of
> escape and anti-escape magic characters, to fit within Unix's
> 255-character limit on command lines, compared to a nicely
> s-expression nested notation that would be possible if regex hadn't
> entrenched itself so solidly.

This is all very interesting, but not Java.

-- 
Lew



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