Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t
wrote:
> I have my own gripe against regular expressions ("regex" for short).
> I hate the extremely terse format, with horrible concoctions of
> escape and anti-escape magic characters, to fit within Unix's
> 255-character limit on command lines, compared to a nicely
> s-expression nested notation that would be possible if regex hadn't
> entrenched itself so solidly.

This is all very interesting, but not Java.

-- 
Lew