It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged. It is the skin of a living thought and may vary in color and context according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
He [William Clinton] has terrible trouble with the truth. I don’t think Presidents should have trouble with the truth.
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
I didn't accept it. I received it.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
