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Former incarnations of the same thing here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486158 http://news.ycombina

• its_so_on 15y ago
  that's what, five years now. Imagine what you would need to pay someone who didn't know the code to come debug the current version. That's Perl built-in job security right there. Also why I don't use it except as throw-away scripting at the bash prompt:)
  • berntb 15y ago
    >>That's Perl built-in job security right there. Huh? You mean, this is about Perl because regexps was created in Perl and the Perl regexp lib isn't ported anywhere else? Oh, wait... (If you must troll, at least be interesting. :-( )
    • its_so_on 15y ago
      I'm sorry must have been drunk, and that one-liner is in reality easy to debug, or even understand.
      • berntb 15y ago
        OK, that assumption that this is how serious people normally writes REs was at least entertaining. But (still) not really contributing to the HN quality.