From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T12:53:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25150] Re: XML support in the standard lib; what exactly?

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Russell <ser@efn.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:32 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:25147] Re: XML support in the standard lib; what
exactly?


> Sometimes I think that regular expressions are some of the most
complicated
> constructions in comp sci.

Thank you for that comment.

I think the same. And someone pointed out that because the
notation is highly condensed or abbreviated (as in: data compression),
the result is largely indistnguishable from random noise.

I wish I were a regex guru, but there are so many other things
to learn as well...

Hal