\* Regular expressions. The most valuable "not a language" that I know. \* SQL. ...

mnemotronic on May 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a se...

* Regular expressions. The most valuable "not a language" that I know. * SQL. For me, it was a trip coming from a procedural language background. I kept trying to figure out how to do loops. * Command line - DOS and unix * Batch languages for those. * HTML / CSS / Java (please don't kill me) Script and the DOM

JamesBarney on May 14, 2019 [–]

Second regular expressions. I use it all the time to edit large bundles of code.