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cutler
on Nov 4, 2018
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Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
My biggest gripe with Java is it's insane backslash-enhanced regular expressions. No other language seems to require this ridiculous butchering of what brought me into programming.
colin_mccabe
on Nov 4, 2018
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Java 12 is going to add raw string literals which will fix this problem.
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/326
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