OK I claim ignorance and am ready to learn new things. Please teach me how to process regular expressions in Native PL/I.
Ze'ev Atlas ________________________________ From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills I very much like the notion of "varicose" flavo[u]rs of SQL. Regular expressions can be and are processed in native PL/I. There is no toolkit and there are no spare parts provided, but once some few of them have been written to be invokable as PL/I functions the rest is straightforward. That said, regular expressions are often misused or, perhaps better, used gratuitously in situations in which they are dispensable. WEhat is, I think, really in q On 3/24/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not clear to me what part is bad, is it the regex functionality or the > specific PCRE library. > Regular expressions are not considered to be that complicated and are part > of all major languages like java, C#, PHP (that actually uses PCRE) , > Python, Ruby, Objective C, VB.net, JavaScript, Perl and lately varicose > flavors of SQL. The only real major languages that do not do that are COBOL > and pl/1. > > PCRE itself is somewhat complicated, but so is the runtime library regex > functionality supplied by IBM as a standard feature. Would you disallow > your programmers to call those standard functions as well? > ZA > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
