Re: a quick PS to the last note...

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Fri, 06 Jan 1995 19:23:49 +0100

> The one thing perl really wins on for this (and other similar) tasks
> is it's enhanced regexp's. Has anyone managed to break larry's regexp
> code out of perl at all?

I talked to Larry about this at the Usenix VHLL conference -- this
would be a great win for Python. Unfortunately Larry thought his
regex code was intricately intertwined with the rest of Perl so I
didn't look into it.

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