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Week 128 Group Rant
react-guy
5y

My own language, hence my own parser.

Reinvented the regular expression before realizing it already existed (Google didn't exist at the time).

I'm a living reference for regular expressions since then.

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  • 1
    5y
    How powerful is it then compared to regex? Can it be used in production?
  • 34
    5y
    @Cheeseus Well I wrote it when I was 16. Using C. I didn't know what "unit test" meant then, same thing for "memory leak".

    I'm pretty sure it is safe for use in production.
  • 11
    5y
    @react-guy regex was born under more or less the same conditions overnight. How bad could it be?
  • 0
    5y
    How old are you, exactly? 40+? 50+? Your code is either shitty as hell or awesome like space grade :)
  • 0
    5y
    @mt3o ~30
  • 0
    5y
    Are you sure google didn't existed about 15 years ago? I remember using Lycos and Alta Vista but Google came in very quickly. Its around the same time. Google was born little before y2k.
  • 1
    5y
    @mt3o No, you're right, Google did exist, but not at today's scale. I wasn't easy to find that kind of specific information at the time.

    For instance, I did not know the name of the tech. That was really impairing then.
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