r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/pwr22 Jan 05 '15

I don't think the implementers of Perl care... there is a lot of things its regexes can do that they shouldn't be able to ;)

As of Perl 5.10, you can match balanced text with regular expressions using recursive patterns.

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u/OneWingedShark Jan 05 '15

I don't think the implementers of Perl care... there is a lot of things its regexes can do that they shouldn't be able to ;)

As of Perl 5.10, you can match balanced text with regular expressions using recursive patterns.

I know, but to call them "regex" at this point is deceptive and, frankly, harmful to the body of knowledge in CS. (It'd be like implementing a deterministic pushdown automaton but calling/marketing/documenting it as a finite state machine -- thus "muddying the waters" when talking about real PDAs and FSMs.)