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Re:Perl Incompatible Regular Expressions by lylepstein on Saturday September 12, 2015 @10:04PM (#10210087)
Seems like a riff on the famous Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library (http://www.pcre.org), which is used in a bunch of high-profile things (PHP, and Apache Server, for starters). Kind of like "less" vs "more".

So a bit of an inside joke I guess, but most people familiar with regexes will probably have heard of PCRE, so it's not a terribly obscure reference. I liked it :)

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Re:Perl Incompatible Regular Expressions by a8da6b0c91d on Saturday September 12, 2015 @10:16PM (#10210117)
PCRE is a set of extensions to RE to enable parsing of nonregular grammars. This is just RE. It's like calling some hypothetical language C++--. It doesn't make sense.
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Re:Perl Incompatible Regular Expressions by kbenson on Saturday September 12, 2015 @11:15PM (#10210227)
Well, if I designed a language that was C++ but stripped of some specific features for a purpose that made it less than C++, but still not quite just C, I might call it C++-- as a joke. In that respect, I think it makes perfect sense.
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