Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

"Rainer" == Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> writes:

Rainer> ¹ I used to use a JSON parser written in OO-Perl which made
Rainer> extensive use of regexes for that. I've recently replaced that
Rainer> with a C/XS version which - while slightly larger (617 vs 410
Rainer> lines of text) - is over a hundred times faster and conceptually
Rainer> simpler at the same time.

I wonder if that was my famous "JSON parser in a single regex" from
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=995856, or from one of the two CPAN
modules that incorporated it.

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