Thoughts regular expressions in, for example sed

[Hormatzhan Yiltiz]

I suppose this thread can be marded as *solved*.


On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 19:21 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > 2013/1/12 Hormatzhan Yiltiz <hyiltiz at gmail.com>:
> > > That is, of course, is not something that we want. AT MOST, it can be
> > > just deemed as a feature for *sed*, or even installing the core system
> is
> > > out of the question.
> > > In this case, I strongly agree with Paul.
> >
> > Anyway, I think it could happen if it is created from scratch as
> > something entirely new with another name, not supposed to be
>

I figured out what Johnny means here.
For that *entirely new* thing, we need *theoretical structures* where it
specifies
the structure of language and specification (as, by the way, what regualer
expressions do).
Coming up with an entirely new theory like this is not always as easy as it
sounds, especially
when some *other theory has already an applicable results.*
*
*

>  > compatible with anything. If it's good and consistent (and known…),
> > people might want to use it
>
> But we already have that.
>
> That's what I've been saying all week: learn to use Perl.  Or Python.
> Or Lua, Ruby, etc. etc.
>
> If you want to learn UNIX tools like sed, grep, and awk, then learn them
> as they are, they won't change... that's precisely why people use them!
> If you want to learn something completely different, there are PLENTY of
> options that already exist.
>
> > >> 2013/1/12 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>:
> > >> > On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:05 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > >> >> Maybe it's time for ”the next version” (total remake) of the whole
> > >> >> concept of regular expressions and give it a few decades.
> > >> >> The old ”version” could then be referred to as ”regular
> exceptions”…
> > >> >
> > >> > So, no, not gonna happen.
> > >>
> > >> That's because everyone says that it's not going to happen…
> > >> People said that about lots of things 30 years ago, and many of those
> > >> things doesn't even exist today…
>
> But many still do... such as many UNIX tools.  Sed and awk, for example,
> are almost 35 years old.
>
>
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