Absolutely right on both counts, dsheroh. Well said.
However, I would rephrase "Perl has no patterns for..." as "Perl programmers don't need patterns for...", since, generally, patterns don't exist within a programming language. (I mean, obviously there are patterns in the design of a language, but that's a different animal.) Also, I think you should have chosen a different example than "finding text ... within a string", since, in the context of that kind of problem, the term "pattern" has another meaning, so the description of your example could be (certainly was to me at first) confusing.
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies
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