> It's not as exciting as it sounds. De Gustibus. Some of us are into that sort of thing. Thanks for the link. > Thompson: I write my lexers by hand. Much e

> It's not as exciting as it sounds. De Gustibus. Some of us are into that sort of thing. Thanks for the link. > Thompson: I write my lexers by hand. Much easier. LMAO. If you've been doing it since the 60's, I suppose you get the hang of it: Ken Thompson, “Regular expression search algorithm,” Communications of the ACM 11(6) (June 1968), pp. 419–422