Regex is a high-level domain-specific language. So in this analogy, it is the tedious substring-comparisons in imperative code which is the equivalent to low-le

Regex is a high-level domain-specific language. So in this analogy, it is the tedious substring-comparisons in imperative code which is the equivalent to low-level assembler. Using the right level of abstraction for the problem at hand is key to readability.