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Re: parsing markup with Perl

• From: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@verizon.net>
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• Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:03:42 -0500

[Default] On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:43:46 +0000, Michael Kay
<mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

| I get the impression that Perl programmers use regexes as their 
| preferred way of performing almost any task, 

Not preferred.  Natural.  This is because regexes are basic to most
text-processing tasks.  Perl took regexes from AWK (which got the idea
from SNOBOL and other precursors, as to the centrality and ubiquity of
pattern matching) and flew with them.

| whereas in most other languages it's something people turn to 
| after considering other options.

Mainly because other languages were not aimed at text (or flat file)
processing to begin with as a primary consideration.

That said, not every task can be reduced to text processing... 

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