Learn & Hack

Franklin Chen will be giving his talk entitled, "Stop overusing regular expressions!"

His abstract:

"Regular expressions are very commonly used to process and validate text data. Unfortunately, they suffer from various limitations. I will discuss the limitations and illustrate how using grammars instead can be an improvement. I will make the examples concrete using parsing libraries in a couple of representative languages, although the ideas are language-independent. (I'll try to squeeze in, say, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Scala.)

I will emphasize ease of use, since one reason for the overuse of regular expressions is that they are so easy to pull out of one's toolbox."

After Franklin's talk we'll have some time to discuss and hack on any other Scala projects people are working on, so bring your ideas and your github repos!

Looking forward to seeing all of you there,

Jamie