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		jgrahamc on Feb 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg I agree. Annoyed me also. There's nothing regexp about it at all. And then TFA says that this is 'Perl syntax'. Sure, Perl uses that syntax but it was inherited from sed which got it from ed.

nicpottier on Feb 14, 2011 [–]

Man, everybody is grumpy today, happy valentines? :)

I know Perl. It is the Perl syntax for regular expressions. I never said it was the first or only to use that syntax. Sheesh.

jgrahamc on Feb 14, 2011 | [–]

OK. I'll cheer up. Here's my Valentine's Day appropriate story.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/02/hacking-toshiba-t4800ct-love-sto...

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