On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 at 11:22:57, Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
(Ref: <5.0.2.1.0.20010313111805.00abab20@pop>)
>P.S. This could be very helpful in the spreading of the Platform in a way.
>Superbasic is far more easier than Perl (in my eyes at least)
Of course it is, 'cos it doesn't have regexps.
One can do incredibly complex things with one (totally incomprehensible)
regexp (8-)#
Some of the programming I do for http://worldnews.com has to look for
text patterns, and there is _nothing_ better than the regexp for parsing
ruddy HTML which allows a sort of free form tag (and simply _wrong_
syntax).
>furthermore, I've seen another basic that does that for NT based
>webservers... so why not Unix based?
>
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