I think it's quite nice. Providing a separate layer of abstraction so that people can just worry about what they want, as opposed to how to get it.
It seems like a pretty natural way that humans come up with regexes, especially if they think in terms of state machines.
It's sort of like, why bother with high-level programming when we could all just learn assembler?
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I think it's quite nice. Providing a separate layer of abstraction so that people can just worry about what they want, as opposed to how to get it.
It seems like a pretty natural way that humans come up with regexes, especially if they think in terms of state machines.
It's sort of like, why bother with high-level programming when we could all just learn assembler?