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Op 10-07-13 11:03, Mats Peterson schreef:
> Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved
> language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl.

All right, you have convinced me. Now what? Why should I care?

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Antoon Pardon