And *this* is why you need Perl!?

[Peter Hansen]

Cameron Laird wrote:

> In article <mailman.49.1083084698.25742.python-list at python.org>,
> Skip Montanaro  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>differences.  In addition, as Jamie Zawinski suggests, regular expressions
>>are not always the best choice.
> 
> "suggests"?  I thought he was "chanting", or "intoning", or
> "inveighing" or "denouncing" or ...  Well, I'll say it on my
> own behalf:  friends, REs are not always the best choice <URL:
> http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=2472/uni1037388368795/ >.

"Denouncing" it definitely was.  I wanted to find the original
source for myself, and Google conveniently provided it.  Still
fun reading, and quite relevant to the thread:

   http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19607&cid=1871619

-Peter