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Programming Language Popularity

Programming Language Popularity

Posted Sep 27, 2004 22:35 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Programming Language Popularity by hppnq
Parent article: Programming Language Popularity

Search engines used to support regular expressions. They later switched
to the "AND", "+", and "-" syntax to make things easier for users. I also
believe that their distributed searching engines are happier this way so they
would have trouble switching back if they wanted.


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