[Default] On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:43:46 +0000, Michael Kay
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| I get the impression that Perl programmers use regexes as their
| preferred way of performing almost any task,
Not preferred. Natural. This is because regexes are basic to most
text-processing tasks. Perl took regexes from AWK (which got the idea
from SNOBOL and other precursors, as to the centrality and ubiquity of
pattern matching) and flew with them.
| whereas in most other languages it's something people turn to
| after considering other options.
Mainly because other languages were not aimed at text (or flat file)
processing to begin with as a primary consideration.
That said, not every task can be reduced to text processing...
