The Guru

Barry Wiseman bwiseman at optonline.net
Wed May 28 08:37:44 PDT 2008


Fairlight wrote:
>>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Jay Ashworth shouted:
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:16:13PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
>>> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Jay Ashworth been jivin' 'bout like:
>>>> Python has it's own, much smaller, library called (I think) PEAR -- or
>>> PEAR is part of PHP, and it's actually the regex parsing engine, if I
>>> remember correctly.
>> 	http://pear.php.net/
> 
> Yeah, I just figured out I confused PEAR with PCRE.  Hey, they both
> start with 'P', gimme a break!  We have too many bloody acronyms in this
> industry.
> 

Remember PCMCIA?  Shoulda stood for People Can't Memorize Computer 
Industry Acronyms.


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