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From:
Rob Cunningham
Date:
October 26, 1999 08:45
Subject:
Re: perlthread.pod -- First draft of thread docs
Message ID:
3815CC76.5C5E7283@ll.mit.edu
Thanks. I have looked at Expect.pm, but for other purposes. In retrospect, it
looks like I could have used it, but Expect wasn't built to do what I would
want it to do. Square pegs can sometimes fit in round holes, but I'd rather
find or fashion a round peg. The perl regexp engine and threading are
described as doing exactly what I want. All I want to do is make reality match
the description.  Therein lies the difficulty...

Rob

Sam Tregar wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Rob Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > I'll add a comment before I start a war. For what I need to do, the best thing
> > about perl is its regexp parser, which is more full-featured than anything
> > else I can find. It's speed is good too, which is critical. When I needed to
> > structure my code to simultaneously parse multiple streams, I could have
> > either (a) rewritten my perl objects in C++ (starting over) or (b) made use of
> > perl's threading mechanism, and kept most of the code base. I did the latter,
> > even though threading was listed as experimental. I plan to work to help make
> > the next version of perl threading work, and we have committed some resources
> > to help make that happen.
> 
> Naive question: have you looked at Expect.pm?  It's interface is raw as
> hell, but armed with _Exploring_Expect_ from O'Reilly you should have a
> "multiple stream" regexer in a day or two.  I like perl threads just like
> the next guy but I don't think that betting the farm on them makes much
> sense right now.
> 
> -sam

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