The idea of programs that work on structured data is quite old. Anyone ever read "structural regular expressions" by Rob Pike? Highly recommended: http://doc.ca

The idea of programs that work on structured data is quite old. Anyone ever read "structural regular expressions" by Rob Pike? Highly recommended: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/ http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/ Also, using structural regexps for efficient interactive text editing: https://github.com/martanne/vis https://github.com/martanne/vis