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I agree with you on everything except regular expressions. I would hope a system programmer would move beyond regular expressions towards safe, linear complexit
by jorangreef 8y ago
I agree with you on everything except regular expressions. I would hope a system programmer would move beyond regular expressions towards safe, linear complexity binary parsers.
And I would also add fuzz-testing to your list.
- friend-monoid 8y agoRegular expressions isn’t the issue, it’s the libraries. Regular expressions are, mathematically, the quickest and safest way to parse text, and they are linear in complexity. But most libraries aren’t...