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>TCL was chosen here because its regex engine isn't too powerful. Uh, not sure I see the significance but wouldn't that make Tcl less apt for this than somethi
by stackghost 2y ago
>TCL was chosen here because its regex engine isn't too powerful.
Uh, not sure I see the significance but wouldn't that make Tcl less apt for this than something else? Why would you purposely choose a less powerful regex engine?
- sshine 2y agoWhen you feed the engine regexes supplied by users, you don’t want arbitrary code execution or exponential or infinite running times caused by obscure features.