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The initial Java release didn’t even have a regex library. As a Perl programmer I found that incomprehensible.

• gattilorenz 4y ago
  Most other programmers probably find your code incomprehensible, if it was Perl :^) But seriously, is there any modern language other than Perl where regular expressions feel so… natural? I reach out for Perl less and less, but always sigh when I need to handle any regex in Python.
  • Kamq 4y ago
    Closest thing would probably be JS, which has regex literals (and you can just call methods on them, or pass them in places). Example: /.*a.*/.test("this is a string") // returns true
  • haileys 4y ago
    Ruby?
• _old_dude_ 4y ago
  or a function sort(), but it was clear by 1997 that there was a lot of money thrown around for everyone knowing how to write a backend in Java.