Meet RegExpBuilder: Verbal Expressions rich, older cousin - The Changelog. I'm an old Snobol and Icon fan - and one of the features of both languages was the quite readable sublanguage for text patterns. What is usually done today with then rather compact to cryptic regular expressions. So I'm happy to come across a project that compiles the much more readable expression forms as usual in Icon into regular expressions. Ok, the goal-oriented execution in Snobol and Icon and the inherent backtracking is of course missing, so it's only syntactic. Still nice.