algebaric operations on a RegEx?

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:55:37PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> First and foremost, I don't want to be seen trying to talk you into a  
> language you are unhappy with. Different languages for different  
> folks... To answer your questions though...

While I agree with this in general, sometimes I wish that there were
fewer ... because then we'd have much greater opportunity for
collaboration and code reuse.  Of course, we wouldn't have as many great
languages if we didn't have the chance to go down other paths far enough
to see where they lead.

> Python is a great language, but not flexible enough for me. See top of  
> this message.

The dogma of Python is that there is a "right way to do it", rather than
"there's more than one way to do it", but practically, there are a lot
of ways to do things in Python.  The difference seems to be that the
Python community encourages coders to converge on a collectively
determined Pythonic style, whereas the Perl community embraces diversity
in style, approach and syntax.  Embraces, hugs fervently and gives wet
sloppy kisses, actually.  This difference may be why the Perl community
is a more vibrant one.
-- 

yours,

William

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