On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Phil Pennock <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-02-26 at 08:01 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > > I'm not sure that I've ever seen a paid Exim consultant. :) > > https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/Commercial > > > The great thing about farming decisions out to Perl, is that this is > where > > PCRE came from. ;) > > No, PCRE comes from Exim, designed and written by Phil Hazel for Exim > but then split off into a separate package and picked up by many other > products. It's designed to mostly emulate how Perl handles regular > expressions, warts and all. > I think we have a case of classic miscommunication here. I consider Perl to be the origin of PERL compatible regular expressions, technically speaking. Yes, the library was created by Phil Hazel, and it definitively solves a lot of problems for people who need Perl-compatible regexps where they otherwise cannot run Perl itself. This was especially important at the time Phil created the library, and for at least a period of time, PCRE developed new features quickly, and even briefly surpassed the feature set of Perl's regexps. -- Jan -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
