Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Charles Duffy <address@hidden>

    > Think "configuration file syntax" instead of "language", then. 

Think Greenspun's 10th which hasn't become such a popular saying for
no reason.

    > Personally, though, I'd love to have something like bigloo's pattern
    > language available for inventory rules -- it's vastly easier to
    > programatically parse and modify than the regex syntaxes, not to mention
    > more intuitive (for the user who doesn't know either to start with, at
    > least).

    > (For more on said pattern language, see section 6.2 of
    > 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/doc/bigloo-7.html#Pattern-Matching)


Heh.  Nifty.  Structured regexps are text, not s-expr oriented.  They
are very similar to the language you cite but for text patterns.

-t