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On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp999@aim.com> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp999@aim.com> wrote:
>>> A moderator who calls himself =93animuson=94 on Stack Overflow doesn=92=
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=92t even know what a regular expression is. Then this of
> course won=92t 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