From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA13969; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:54:51 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13965 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:54:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mms.tumbleweed.com ([64.41.172.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f2RIsnn09735 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:54:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from 10.1.5.1 by mms.tumbleweed.com with SMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7)); Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:55:25 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: 538e6a8c-0f42-11d4-9400-000102237308 Received: from tumbleweed.com ([10.1.50.45]) by hawaii.tumbleweed.com ( Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-67083U1500L100S0V35) with ESMTP id AAA483 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:54: 41 -0800 Message-ID: <3AC0E1F0.62FCCEF0@tumbleweed.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:54:40 -0800 From: "Matthieu Villeneuve" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml Development Kit References: <15039.15898.748515.834915@cremant.inria.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010326193736.02ac2640@shell16.ba.best.com> X-WSS-ID: 16DE3D97693936-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Chris Hecker wrote: > > > As much as I love Caml as a language, I have to admit that I've been less > >than pleased with the standard infrastructure for string manipulation. > > Slightly off-topic, but anybody who's interested in string processing should read the bottom part of the interview with Ilya Zakharevich. He talks about how Perl's text processing is really not all that great, and he has a lot of good things to say. Here's a snippet. It would be a coup for Caml to have a module that supports some of these features before other languages: > > --------- > http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/ilya.html > Let me also mention that classifying the text handling facilities of Perl as "extremely agile" gives me the willies. Perl's regular expressions are indeed more convenient than in other languages. However, the lack of a lot of key text-processing ingredients makes Perl solutions for many averagely complicated tasks either extremely slow, or not easier to maintain than solutions in other languages (and in some cases both). > ... Also, a Perl developer saying that Lisp is an "inherently unreadable language" always makes you see life in a different way... ;-) --Matthieu ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr