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In response to "It's a concise language for string matching and manipulation. -- nm" by Beryllium

Uh? Like old school barely recognizable limited characters commands? Like if one programmed using only the Vic 20 symbolic shortcuts?

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Jun 25 '17, 17:37

Ok..English motherfucker ;-)

That Vic 20 reference isn't much past where my programming ended...

Geez, and how old am I that I have memories of where every character counted in a program....not necessarily for speed but actual absolute storage space

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It's used thousands of times a day inside dozens of programming languages and applications, including SlackerTalk -- (edited) - Beryllium Jun 25, 17:47
A regular expression can start simply... if letter "a" replace with letter "b". - Mop Jun 25, 17:45 2
- Oh! But if one wrote a program only using such a concept, it would take at least a second pass to figure out what the hell is going on (well second - JD Jun 25, 17:51 1
  - I'm not following anymore. - Mop Jun 25, 19:00
Heh, I learned Basic and touched on C+ and Fortran. Commands typed on punch-cards and handed through a little window to an operator... - Meg Jun 25, 17:42 1
- OK. That's just swoon inducing as well as invoking feelings of sympathy - JD Jun 25, 17:47

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Uh? Like old school barely recognizable limited characters commands? Like if one programmed using only the Vic 20 symbolic shortcuts?

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