“That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[ eE] xp?|RE... Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns…”

— Larry Wall

[199710171838.LAA24968@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

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American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

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