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babo on Nov 28, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joe Armstrong: "In my opinion Erlang is brilliant ...

From 12Bx that changed, regexps are enjoyable but still not as rich as Perl.

tlack on Nov 28, 2009 | [–]

Maybe someone should write a parse transform for dealing with them?

rjurney on Nov 28, 2009 | [–]

Cool, I'll look again. Thanks.

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