And *this* is why you need Perl!? (was: Is Perl *that* good?)

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Tue Apr 27 14:15:27 EDT 2004


In article <mailman.49.1083084698.25742.python-list at python.org>,
Skip Montanaro  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
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>differences.  In addition, as Jamie Zawinski suggests, regular expressions
>are not always the best choice.
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>Skip
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"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/ >.
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