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kbd on Nov 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: ReX.js – Your RegEx companion

> Yeah, is like why use python when assembler is just as obvious.

This is a truly awful straw-man.

mamcx on Nov 19, 2018 [–]

It is? Regex have a arcane "syntax". Is good, from the point of view of a APL user, but as part of other languages is not.

Is totally outside the experience among other DSL. For example, you are on python, your DSLs are pythonic, except this one, that look totally alien.

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