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I think you miss my point: Comparing Erlang's string handling to one of the first mainstream languages is pretty ignorant of the evolution that has happened the
by amix 17y ago
I think you miss my point: Comparing Erlang's string handling to one of the first mainstream languages is pretty ignorant of the evolution that has happened the last 30 years. He should compare Erlang to recent languages, before concluding that Erlang's string support is great.
- JoachimSchipper 17y agoActually, Armstrong was talking about text handling, which is not the same thing - certainly not in the context of a thread about writing an editor (in Erlang). I'm by no means an Erlang expert, nor have I ever written an editor; but I don't think it self-evident that, say, language support for regular expressions is a significant aid. (Automatic memory management may be helpful, but Erlang has that and it's not what we're talking about anyway.)