Comment Re:Compared to Intellij IDEA, XCode sucks (Score 1) 784
>I'm willing to bet that if you find yourself wanting to use regular expressions in a Cocoa program, one of two things is happening. Either you're coming from a scripting background and you haven't really figured out how to program in Cocoa yet, or you're using Cocoa for a job that could be better done with a script.
I'm willing to bet that none of your apps dealt heavily with string parsing and/or validation. You can certainly avoid using regular expressions if you have to, but I suspect that anyone who's done any significant text analysis or parsing using regexp will sing the praises of PCRE to their deathbed. Regular expressions are an incredibly useful, robust tool that can and will save you hours and hours of tedious string parsing. Just because you haven't come across any reason to use them doesn't mean that they're not crucial to other applications, or that using them is some kind of cop out that die-hard coders would never consider. Also, I've never worked with Cocoa, but I'd be surprised if there really wasn't any way to get regexp support, even through a 3rd party library.
I'm willing to bet that none of your apps dealt heavily with string parsing and/or validation. You can certainly avoid using regular expressions if you have to, but I suspect that anyone who's done any significant text analysis or parsing using regexp will sing the praises of PCRE to their deathbed. Regular expressions are an incredibly useful, robust tool that can and will save you hours and hours of tedious string parsing. Just because you haven't come across any reason to use them doesn't mean that they're not crucial to other applications, or that using them is some kind of cop out that die-hard coders would never consider. Also, I've never worked with Cocoa, but I'd be surprised if there really wasn't any way to get regexp support, even through a 3rd party library.
