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Re:Optics and Regex: Greater than the sum of their parts by codesections on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:05AM (#21033438)
> I hate to be That Guy, but I found the massive overuse of exclamation points to be very distracting.… [Exclamation points] should not be a default punctuation choice.

I think that's overstating it quite a bit. There's one exclamation point in the first four paragraphs. The frequency picks up a bit after that, but I'd hardly call them the default punctuation choice.

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Re:Optics and Regex: Greater than the sum of their parts by pierrec on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:13AM (#21033466)
> The frequency picks up a bit after that

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Re:Optics and Regex: Greater than the sum of their parts by sl1ck731 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:19AM (#21033494)
There are 62 exclamations and 54 periods (counted after removing the periods in code sections).
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