beating back the microsoftian hordes...

[peter renshaw]

>And a rap from a surprising source, from the creator of Java himself,
>James Gosling:
>  http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm:
>"I think the one that has the best broad coverage is Java, but I'm a really
>biased sample. If you're doing things that are heavily into string pattern-
>atching, Perl can be pretty nice. I guess actually those are the ones I use
>much at all these days."
>
>  
>
was this before or after they (Gosling and Java engineers at Sun) tried 
some regular expression hacks in competition with some Perl hackers?
http://use.perl.org/articles/02/09/16/1448246.shtml?tid=35

ahh enough advocacy for tonight.
Regs PR