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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ...
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:24:43 +0100
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On 03/11/2013 09:59 PM, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
> On 3/11/2013 4:08 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

>> Certainly you can write FSMs for a lot of things.  But you were claimi=
ng
>> that a manual FSM should be used instead of a regexp engine; so the
>> question remains unanswered: why would anyone create a FSM by hand for=

>> parsing?
>
> It sounds cool to claim to do so in a usenet thread!
>
> :-)

You've got a point there!

Cheers

	robert