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John R. Strohm wrote:
> And that "simple little limited regular expression matcher" passed the
> formal customer acceptance test on the first try, with no deviations or
> waivers or anything.

But it took them *two years* to get it specified,
designed, and built. Maybe it was a polished piece
of perfection, but that's a very long time to build
a message filter.