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Regexes aren't evil in this case because they're slow. They're evil because it's incredibly difficult to correctly parse XML using regexes. In a language with stricter regexes, it'd be impossible, but in Perl's extended regexes, it's merely very, very difficult.

I don't take people seriously who talk about what they're going to do. I take them seriously when they talk about what they've already accomplished. So far, your entire output has been polluting Meditations with successive walls of text, plus a zip file with Perl code demonstrating terrible coding practices.

After cutting out the ranting about 486s, Moore's Law, and the herd mentality, I see a potentially useful templating system. But not a particularly remarkable one. It looks like Lisp done in XML, something that would be recognizable to someone who read the first chapter of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It hardly justifies all this talk of heretics and blasphemy.

tl;dr: please stop spamming Meditations. If your ideas have merit, then go code them up in a package that doesn't parse CGI parameters by hand and demonstrates knowledge of placeholders and context free grammars.


"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.


In reply to Re: Moores Law, Perl and the future by hardburn
in thread Moores Law, Perl and the future by simonodell

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