[Haskell-cafe] RegEx versus (Parsec, TagSoup, others...)

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 11/13/10 09:19 , Brent Yorgey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:56:26PM -0800, Michael Litchard wrote:
>> a Perl perspective. I let him into what I was doing, and he opined I
>> should be using pcre. So now I'm second guessing my choices. Why do
>> people choose not to use regex for uri parsing?
> 
> Never believe anything anyone coming from a Perl perspective says
> about regular expressions.

If a Perl "expert" tells you that regexps are the way to parse HTML/XML, you
can safely conclude they've never actually tried to do it.

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