Thursday, May 8, 2003

the most under-appreciated computer language - LISP, by a long way. LISP was an incredible work of art. so simple and so reflexive. but an absolutely crap syntax that doomed it. the qualities that it had are bound to surface again sometime soon, and hopefully replace the current slew of offerings. [graham glass: what's next?] I agree - it is an incredible work of art and totally under-appreciated.  Syntax?  It's all in what you make of it and get used to.  I'm sure if we were all coding LISP as often as we were coding Java or VB or even Python we'd not even sweat the syntax. 6:00:32 PM    comment []

Regex Coach. The Regex Coach is Edi Weitz' application for exploring and experimenting with regular expressions (e.g., stepping through the matching process) in a graphical way. There are windows and linux versions, and it is written in lisp. [lemonodor] This is EXTREMELY cool.  I donwloaded it and played with it briefly.  If you have developed a regex fetish, but haven't mastered the art, then you should download this program and start playing. Emacs users may not find this all that useful because you can test out regex with C-M-s interactive regex search.  But, maybe you'll like playing with them in this environment. 5:57:06 PM    comment []

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