From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-24T01:24:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9766] regex engine (Re:  Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9694] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages"
    on 01/01/22, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:

|Henry Spencer's totally rewritten regex package which is now embedded in Tcl 
|8.3 is _THE_ one to choose.  It should be the fastest one out there now, and 
|a nice license to boot.  The problem is that Henry Spencer does seem to have 
|fallen off the face of the earth, so I haven't gotten a chance to discuss 
|its usage in various places with him.

Qualifications are:

 (a) fast
 (b) good license
 (c) multibyte aware
 (d) perl5 extended expression

Not in particular order (I want ALL).  As far as I read, Tcl's
satisfies (a) and (b), I think.

							matz.