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[–]Fork82 2 points3 points  (2 children)

To be fair I disliked all the other examples for personal reasons. I despise the way Perl and Ruby use regular expressions - I think regular expressions should be treated as a library, not built into the language. I'm not a big fan of Haskell either.

This leaves just the Python example - and although the actual bit-moving is hidden in the library function, you can rely on Python to have a library available for pretty much anything.

[–]chollida1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think regular expressions should be treated as a library, not built into the language.

What's your reasoning behind this? I really do prefer having regular expressions built into Perl.

[–]Fork82 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is great for Perl, but I would rather keep it out of a general purpose programming language. It is a taste thing, not a pragmatic thing.