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Re:Regex Legends: The People Behind the Magic by dzign on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:34PM (#27877284)
Expected to see Chomsky in the list. Disappointed.
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Re:Regex Legends: The People Behind the Magic by imglorp on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:48PM (#27877376)
Eg the Chomsky Hierarchy.

https://devopedia.org/chomsky-hierarchy

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Re:Regex Legends: The People Behind the Magic by slev on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:00PM (#27889366)
These days people study regular languages as part of the Chomsky hierarchy, but back when regular expressions were introduced into computing the term referred to Kleene’s regular expressions.
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