16 Apr
2007
16 Apr
'07
7:48 a.m.
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 11:06 +0100, Dougal Stanton wrote:
A one-liner using PCRE regex might also be of use.
Unless it can be performed with astounding dexterity, I don't think try to beat, for example, Perl at its own game will produce worthwhile results.
One possibility is a task where the Perl hacker will pull out regular expressions, but where cleaner and more maintainable code can be written using Haskell. Possibly parsing a relatively simple, line based format with 'words', 'concat', 'split', et al.? Or a recursive format? -k