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On 10 July 2013 12:14, Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> 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?

Isn't it obvious? Regex-based macros!