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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:41:33 -0600
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Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> writes

| And yes, the locale stuff is a *N*I*G*H*T*M*A*R*E*.  Much of the heavy
| lifting was done by others for the dfa and regex code, but I've done
| my share to get it working too, and I must admit it's often a PITA.

yes, and worst of all, it's done in an ad-hoc way with code that would be
nearly impossible to verify. (speaking of spin.)

- erik