Also Russ Cox is one of the main hackers in the Google Go team and wrote the new (pure) Go regexp engine based on his work on re2. Of course the Go team also i

Also Russ Cox is one of the main hackers in the Google Go team and wrote the new (pure) Go regexp engine based on his work on re2. Of course the Go team also includes Ken Thompson who popularized regexps with Unix, and Rob Pike of 'structural regular expressions' fame: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/ http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/