In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> Using complex regular expressions is like tank destruction |> with contact charges glued on them. Only a few people |> will even survive the first "usage", but survivors will |> then eventually be able to destroy almost every tank with |> tremendous speed and precision.
I must remember that! It is nicely put. |> On business software projects, maintainability is a key |> prerequisite - after using complex regular expressions |> on business critical parts you are bound to involve |> very very expensive maintenance programmers ... :) Yes :-) Even regular expression experts have major problems ensuring that complicated ones match everything that they need to and nothing that they don't. The same thing applies to uses of the C preprocessor and many uses of Perl .... |> What exactly did you "hear" of several "uses"? Which |> application? Academia, Business, ...? Mainly academic research, but that still covers many fields. However, I am not and never have been a 'pure' academic, and am as interested in other uses as in academic research. Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
