Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

[Mats Peterson]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp999 at aim.com> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp999 at aim.com> wrote:
>>>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t
>>>> want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python
>>>> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl.
>>>> Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Such a dickwad.
>>>
>>> And this matters... how? What are we supposed to do about it? We are
>>> not the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does not exist.
>>>
>>> ChrisA
>>
>> I fear you don’t even know what a regular expression is. Then this of
>> course won’t affect you whatsoever.
>
> I know what regular expressions are. I've used them in Perl, PHP,
> JavaScript, Python, C++, Pike, and numerous text editors (which may
> have been backed by one of the above languages, or may have been
> something else). Doesn't change the fact that I have no idea what the
> significance is of your post.
>
> ChrisA

You do? And you haven't noticed the inferior performance of regular
expressions in Python compared to Perl? Then you obviously haven't
used them a lot.

Mats

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