In
<2995AB0EF65FC04B9EFA195743207717118A93CF@MSPWPA-DITDG1B.doitt.nycnet>,
on 12/04/2012
   at 06:20 PM, "Barkow, Eileen" <[email protected]> said:

>2. To overcome the cultural issue of the traditional conservatism 
>of Mainframe application developers and get them to understand, 
>learn and use regular expressions

While the extended regexen of Perl et al are newer, regular
expressions have been in the literature for half a century. Can you
say SNOBOL? Wylbur? It's time for MF developers to pick up the
concept.

-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     Atid/2        <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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