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Don't forget regular expressions. How anyone puts up with having to escape all backlashes is beyond me. But, then, I'm used to Perl and Ruby. Scala, Clojure and

by cutler 7y ago

Don't forget regular expressions. How anyone puts up with having to escape all backlashes is beyond me. But, then, I'm used to Perl and Ruby. Scala, Clojure and Kotlin don't have this problem so why is the Emperor Without Clothes That Is Java having such a hard time?

floriol 7y ago
Because it's 20+ years old and tries to be as source compatible as possible?
- cutler 7y ago
  Perl and Ruby are at least as old but I never had to backslash everything when writing regexen in Perl or Ruby.