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somewhat reminds me of 'sed', but with less history and less power.
by evgeniysharapov 7y ago
somewhat reminds me of 'sed', but with less history and less power.
- schoen 7y agoIt looks to me like it's very similar to a subset of sed, but with a more powerful regex library. But many programs in this language probably have near line-for-line translations into sed if they don't use newer regex features. A lot of people (including me) have basically only learned the s command in sed and don't usually think about all of the more sophisticated sed features.
- mbue 7y agoYeah, it really is surprisingly similar to sed. "Surprisingly", because when I first designed the language I knew nothing about sed, and I still know very little (but I've seen people convert programs between both languages in a fairly straightforward manner).