Subj : Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
To   : Nelgin
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Jul 23 2018 09:11 am

 Re: Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
 By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Sun Jul 22 2018 03:25 am

Ne> Yup, Python is another option. Again, something I don't use because I
Ne> don't need it. I can do most of the things I need in shell scripts. For
Ne> those that deal with a lot of text files and manipulating them one way or
Ne> another, or for something regular expression heavy, I use PERL. Even php
Ne> has a perl regular expression library. In Python 2.5 the regex module was
Ne> removed, which contained Emacs type pattern matching. It now uses re which
Ne> is privdes PERL like patching. For regex, you really can't beat PERL.

Yeah, the regex library in Python is pretty good.  I've used regular
expressions in JavaScript also, and I think it's fairly decent in JavaScript
too.

Nightfox

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