10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
2:27 p.m.
On 10 Oct 2008, at 7:05 pm, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:08 +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
In Haskell it is.
Parsec makes recursive descent parsers as easy to use in Haskell as regexps are in Perl. No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to the thing it does best.
jcc
Regex tends to come after things like basic I/O, even in Perl. I've got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention how to open a file! Just because it can be done, or it's easy(ier) doesn't mean that's where you should start. Iain