In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So … — Yukihiro Matsumoto

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

Yukihiro MatsumotoScientist · Japanese · b. 1965

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