compile-time regex redux

[Bill Baxter]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>>> Walter gave another good case study: Ruby on Rails. The success of 
>>> Ruby on Rails has a lot to do with its ability to express 
>>> abstractions that
>>> were a complete mess to deal with in concreteland.
>>
>> I found this essay to be pivotal in piquing my interest in this:
>>
>> http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
>>
>> and a related one:
>>
>> http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
> 
> Awesome. The site could have a section with "external links" pointing to 
> these articles, as well as SICP (which is also available online at 
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/), The View From Berkeley 
> (http://view.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Main_Page) and other texts that are 
> important to grasp in order to understand and shape the future of D.
> 
> 
> Andrei

Videos of Abelson and Sussman lectures are also available online at MIT 
Courseware.  Good stuff if you have the time to watch.

--bb