Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions

Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions

  • March 5, 2018
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Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions

Little did I know that learning about Chomsky would drag me down a rabbit hole back to regular expressions, and then magically cast regular expressions into something that fascinated me. What enchanted me about regular expressions was the homonymous linguistic concept that powered them.

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