"Tushar Mehta" wrote...
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You might be surprised but the last time I checked there was no rule
that says MS XL MVPs are not allowed to be good with regular
expressions.

No rule at all. Just reacting to the apparent premise that expertise in one
field implies expertise in other, tenuously related fields. Why did you
bother with the regexp example page when there are hundreds of thousands of
posts on regexps in the archives of comp.unix.shell, comp.lang.perl.misc and
comp.lang.awk (as well as alt.editors.batch [sed], comp.editors [vi and
EMACS], and the newsgroups for Python, Ruby, PHP and for all I know Rebol,
Tcl, and lua).

You know, Harlan, in many aspects you are technically good. I just
don't understand how you have developed this idea that rudeness is a
measure of technical competence. But, I guess, to each his own.

Rudeness is one of my flaws. It's unrelated to any technical competence.