Precision Computing

I too love regular expressions. It were all the backend power of CodeHTMLer (http://puzzleware.net/codehtmler/) comes from.

I used to be doing perl and other regex heavy stuff in dynamic languages for years. After getting to know C# and OO more I'm having harder time seeing the need for dynamic languages and regex. They are fun to write but will come haunt you later if using them on data by a 3rd party.

I started with Mastering Regular-expressions book which gave a good summary of the differences and greedy matching support of engines. Came to like the perl/php way of things a lot since it's used in many many other platforms as well that I used.

Maybe MS will come up with something impressive in the dynamic space, but if there's no Intellisense equivalent or atleast automatic parameter help in the UI, I am not buying it! It's one thing to memorize a language than to memorize a ton of commands and their parameters or .NET. Atleast until there's a upgradeable cybernetic memory implant or a neural cmd/google interface - I hope they are working on that!

PS. Maybe you could make Monad with WPF and give it some nice way of showing parameter help boxes while you are typing in the commands...