poelie

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   by poelie 15y ago

   It goes deeper than that. He has used back references. So formally it aren't real regular expressions anymore. (Back references rewrites the grammar on the fly). Perl regular expressions are pretty powerful. I wrote a small perl program (ju
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   by poelie 15y ago

   I am a physicist from origin, so I haven't had a lot of specialized classes. I always used imperative languages. In physics c++ and c are leading. Two years ago I found Haskell. It was difficult to learn, until I realized in Haskell you are
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   by poelie 15y ago

   We use Haskell intensively. It is a very useful and easy language. Once you mastered Haskell (and get used to the type system), it feels very natural. It is both usable for scripting and "real" tasks. The trick with Haskell is to model the
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   by poelie 15y ago

   Learning new languages will become easier over time. Lots of concepts are shared by many languages. Only paradigm shifts are really difficult. From imperative to functional. From functional to reactive etc. But these are also the more worth