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A comment on Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime. Parent comment
The difference isn't academical. It has huge practical implications, from software that is just annoyingly slow to DoS attacks.
People need to understand that. And stop using non-regular regexes (or better yet: regex in general) in production code. It increases world-suck.
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The difference isn't academical. It has huge practical implications, from software that is just annoyingly slow to DoS attacks.
People need to understand that. And stop using non-regular regexes (or better yet: regex in general) in production code. It increases world-suck.