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Discussion on: Exercise: Making a Simple Regex Engine

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Jan Wedel • Edited

<3 for using Erlang. Although it may look strange people using C-Style syntax or other scripting languages, Erlang and the Erlang VM (BEAM) has a ton of great features and concepts that gets slowly added to other more popular languages.

I also love RegExs so that was a great read for me :)

You might mention, that most actual productive implementation do compile a regular expression on runtime to executable code for performance reasons.