Re: [xml-dev] parsing markup with Perl

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>]

Hi Michael,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:49:50 -0500
Michael Sokolov <msokolov@safaribooksonline.com> wrote:

> Hi Shlomi,
> 
> thanks for explaining the difference between Perl's and formal regular 
> expressions (and for the rest of your post).  I actually do know what 
> formal regular expressions are, but your explanation was illuminating 
> even if you didn't think my jokes were funny.

I'm glad you found it illuminating. Just note that I may have gotten some of
the historical facts wrong, because I was speaking to the best of my
knowledge. No Strings Attached™ and please don't cite what I said on
the Wikipedias because it wasn't a Reliable Source™. ;-) [1]

Regarding getting the joke - often humour gets lost in writing, and, plus,
I'm especially susceptible to this I think (but not sure).

> 
> I do just want to point out that the blog post you dug up (I did too!) 
> was Simon's, not mine.
> 

Which blog post and by dug up do you mean "found" or do you mean "liked" (as in
"I totally dig chocolate chip cookies."), or something else? Sorry, but I
sometimes have problems understanding such idioms (and I'm not a native
speaker of English). 

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

[1] - that was an attempt at a joke, but naturally, I was serious.

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