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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
January 13, 2001 09:26
Subject:
Re: Ideas for papers
Message ID:
20010113112556.G6023@chaos.wustl.edu
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 10:11:07AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> > >  - how Perl's RE engine works (jhi?)
> > 
> > I can't claim to know that evil grimoire well enough.
> 
> It'd be an incredible piece of work if you did write that paper,
> though.  HINT.  *HINT*.

I find it hard to imagine a paper on the engine that wouldn't make
people fall asleep.  Or get nauseous.  Or both.

-- 
$jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/
        # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

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