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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ...
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On 3/11/2013 6:00 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
> [...]
> ([()<>,:;@])|(?:[^\\"]|\\.)*|\[(?:[^\\\]]|\\.)*\]|(?:\\.|[^
> \t\r\n()<>,:;@["])+
>
> That is an example of a production regular expression I use specifically
> for tokenizing. [...]

     As Ed Post noted nearly thirty years ago:

	It has been observed that a TECO command sequence
	more closely resembles transmission line noise
	than readable text.
	-- "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"

Nobody I know of uses TECO any more, but regexes satisfy
people's craving for gibberish.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid