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Aha. I wrote this post 15 years ago after explaining to my wife (who is a Language major) how this "regular expression" works. It has been discussed a few time

• bmn__ 5y ago
  Credit is due to Abigail <https://web.archive.org/web/2020/http://www.abigail.be/ https://web.archive.org/web/2020/http://www.abigail.be/>. Please give it and be a good Internet citizen by amending the post.
• phgn 5y ago
  @dang can we please add (2007) to the title?
  • beardyw 5y ago
    It doesn't seem to be past its "best before" date.
    • phgn 5y ago
      What do you mean? I actually love posts about old articles, they're often more useful than any fleeting news.
• chx 5y ago
  As an aside, a Hungarian mathematician wrote an entire book explaining how mathematics works to a, I guess, a language major (well, Marcell Benedek was a professor, a writer, a literary historian, a translator, a theatre director). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_with_Infinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_with_Infinity