My "point" was a joke about PCRE, the present regexp engine in Python and most other open source languages. The answer I got (in addition to a couple of good i

My "point" was a joke about PCRE, the present regexp engine in Python and most other open source languages. The answer I got (in addition to a couple of good introductory lectures I should send to people :-) ) seems to be that is sucks. :-(