Alan Burlison wrote:

> Alan DuBoff wrote:
>
>> My biggest gripe against it is that it's very easy for bugs to popup
>> by use of regular expressions, which plague Perl in practice. It's
>> not that regular expressions are bad, it's that in use it has shown
>> that this has been one of the areas where bugs have cropped up in
>> Perl, historically.
>
>
> We better ban Java as well then.  It's REs are more-or-less identical
> to those in perl. ;-)
>
Sounds like a good plan!  Never mind the RE syntax, think of the
footprint...

Ian
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