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A comment on RE#: high performance derivative-based regex matching with intersection, complem. Parent comment

Re:RE#: high performance derivative-based regex matching wit... by def-lkb on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:57PM (#44678614)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libre/ dates back to 2001. (One could object it is not imperative enough, whatever that means :))
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Re:RE#: high performance derivative-based regex matching wit... by burntsushi on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:47AM (#44683083)
The claim here wasn't just "first implementation of derivatives." It was a far more precise "first industrial implementation of derivatives for standard regexes in an imperative language."
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