Regular expressions

[rurpy at yahoo.com]

On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:31:34 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:13 am, rurpy wrote:
> 
> > There would be far fewer computer languages, and they would be much
> > more primitive if regular expressions (and the fundamental concepts
> > that they express) did not exist.
> 
> Well, that's certainly true. But only because contra-factual statements can
> imply the truth of anything. If squares had seven sides, then Joseph Stalin
> would have been the first woman to go to the moon on horseback.

Yes, thank you for that profoundly insightful comment.