Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:21:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/24/2024 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:50:51 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:

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This is one of the many reasons I like PERL.

 
Perl completely changed the game with its combination of good regular
expressions, good string handling, and good data structures as well. I
credit Perl with popularizing the whole concept of regular expressions:
before that, they were considered something esoteric.
 
For example, BASIC was considered to have good string-handling
facilities. But it never had good regular expressions or hash tables;
and the coming of Perl made BASIC look quite old-fashioned indeed.

 
80's and early 90's Basic flavors (and that include VMS Basic)
did not have those.
 
But later MS Basic flavors did have them:
* VB/VBS/VBA has RegExp class and Scripting.Dictionary
   COM class
* VB.NET has System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex and
   System.Collections.Hashtable (later replaced by
   System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary)

Did you really have to type those longwinded names that just to access
them?

In Python, it’s just “import re”.