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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:56:34 -0700
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Ted Ashton wrote:
> The "ugliness" about which Wirt commented was, I think, the regular expression,
> not Perl, per se, as regexen are found many other places (including Python).

Regexps kick butt as far as string manipulation power goes, but they can be
very painful indeed for humans to read.  ;-)

- Mark B.

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