[2109] in java-interest
Re: regular expressions and dbm for Java?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Mon Sep 25 17:03:13 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:26:55 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <199509250756.XAA11227@concerto> (tmb@best.com)
> Languages like Perl and Python that are currently popular for doing
> a lot of WWW related programming have extensive support for
> regular expressions and dbm files.
>
> I'm sort of missing similar support in Java. Is there a standard
> API and implementation in the works?
Reminds me so say some things I have been meaning to say for a while.
1. If there is no available API, and you are planning to do an
implementation, write it as an *interface*. That way, people can use
your implementation without becoming tethered to it.
2. Sun ought to have an informat interface-approval process (based, I
suppose, on RFCs). Standardize database, R-E, encryption, what have
you.
M.
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