New Python regex Doc

axel at white-eagle.co.uk axel at white-eagle.co.uk
Sun May 8 01:03:29 EDT 2005


In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:
> Let me expose one another fucking incompetent part of Python doc, in
> illustration of the Info Tech industry's masturbation and ignorant
> nature.
 
> Note the need to inject the high-brow jargon “greedy” here as a
> latch on sentence.
 
> “never greedy”? What is greedy anyway?
 
> “Greedy”, when used in the context of computing, describes a

When used in terms of Usenet, I think it can be applied in the sense
of 'a troll who is greedy for attention'.

Hence the saying 'do not feed the troll'.

Axel




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