On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:57 AM, David C. wrote: > I think without question that they [regex] must be the most arcane, yet > powerful programming tools ever devised
APL is surely a contender here, eg: R<-1000 (~RεRº_xR)/R<-1|iR gives you all the prime numbers less than 1000 (I had to approximate the special symbols that APL uses.) Extremely compact matrix/vector-based mathematical language, quite arcane…. My father worked his whole life in APL, developed an EDI application that is still used commercially. Completely different animal from regex or LC, though, no good for text processing -- AFAIK. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
