Book meme

By way of jfleck:

1. Grab the nearest book.
   
2. Open the book to page 123.
   
3. Find the fifth sentence.
   
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
   
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
   

So, let's see what dear old Dan has been reading:

This is sometimes referred to as the backslash plague, and it is one reason why regular expressions are easier in Perl than in Python.

Yeah, sorry gentle readers who may have been looking for something more titillating. It might be interesting simply in that most of my work is actually focussed on PHP at the moment. The quote comes from Dive into Python by Mark Pilgrim, actually a wonderful text if you want to learn Python (or many other tidbits of general programming interest).