I am Mauritian and the whole country is incredibly proud of this achievement, small David against huge Goliath.

Of course, we also know that there is still a long way to go before the conclusion.

Right on, good for you guys.

Thanks for sharing. This is a post I wrote way back in 2007 and, even though, as many have pointed out, the algorithm is very inefficient, it is still a good illustration of how powerful regular expressions are.

When I am explaining the basics of regular expressions to people, I always refer them to this post to make them realize that regular expressions are not only glorified search terms. In general, they are amazed :-)

RIP Atul Chitnis. Met him during a conference in Mauritius around 2002 and we had a great conversation about open source software in poor(er) countries.

I think this is an excellent article and it's clear that the guy who wrote that did a lot of research.

How does reading on a 3" screen compare to reading to 6"? Personally, I had a Sony Clié a few years ago with a small screen (2.5" I guess) and I didn't have lots of problems reading technical docs from it. But then, they were mostly ASCII text and the Clié could reflow the text to fit the screen. Does the same thing happen on the iPhone or the Kindle?