SPUG: Grep syntax

[Marc M. Adkins]

Shawn W. wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2007, at 11:07 PM, Ivan Heffner wrote:
> 
>> All of this talk (and disdain) for grep. Why?
>>
>> And no one has mentioned it's counterpart: map
>>
> 
> I suspect a lot of perl users don't  have a great deal of familiarity  
> with functional languages where list processing is emphasized than it  
> is in perl -- lisp, scheme, the MLs, and so on.  map, filter/grep,  
> and one that perl's missing as a built-in -- fold (which can be used  
> to create pretty much any other list function) are used all over the  
> place in those languages. Not so much in perl, though not for  
> technical reasons. People get into a certain mindset of how to do  
> something and just don't think of alternatives using other paradigms  
> or idioms.

LOL.

One of the reasons I enjoy Perl is that it reminds me of Lisp.  It's a 
little bit of a stretch, but think about map and grep, eval, and the 
minimal but entirely sufficient support for objects.  Not to mention 
productivity, measured as getting the job done in minimal time.

I so miss InterLisp.  Anyone have an old Xerox 110X box laying around 
gathering dust?

Marc M. Adkins