Is Perl *that* good?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <lEIjc.571$id.8865 at news2.e.nsc.no>,
Leif B. Kristensen <junkmail at solumslekt.org> wrote:
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>I actually did rewrite the routine once in PHP, but I usually find
>regexps in any other language than Perl a PITA.
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Right, and anything you can do to make that pain
concretely evident interests me.  I repeat:  I
have much experience of people deprecating REs
outside Perl; I'm still collecting specific 
examples, to help me understand exactly what the
pain is.
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