Re^2: No questions. Just a "thank you for named captures" !!

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It's a shame that perl did not come up with named captures.

If you want to get technical about it, most modern languages (including Perl) have a debt to C. In fact most compilers, translators, interpolators and such are written in C, C++ or a combination of both.