"COLE,GLENN (Non-HP-SantaClara,ex2)" wrote:
>
> Mark Bixby writes:
> > Thanks!  ALOT of effort went into cicat2html to make all references to
> > commands & functions cross-link, and it wouldn't have been possible
> > without the power of Perl regular expression pattern matching.
>
> then Wirt:
> > You can always tell a true zealot when he says something like this :-).
> >
> > But truth be told, if you can do it in Perl, you can do it in any
> > language that handles strings well, perhaps just a less cryptically.
>
> ...and more verbosely.  (Aye -- there's the rub. ;)
>
> But actually, I suspect Mark meant, "it wouldn't have been possible
> *in the same amount of development time* without the power of Perl...."
> (Of course, I am hardly qualified to put words in Mark's writing.)

That's basically it.  Of the tools that I have experience in, Perl is the one I
would choose for serious string handling applications.  Yes, cicat2html could
have been written in some other language, but Perl allowed me to do the job
with a minimum of effort.
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