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by mdp2021 1681 days ago
You seem to forget that regular expressions are pretty much simply required - and at least for their more simpler cases, their syntax is reasonable - 'syn[a-z ]+?able' is far from unreadable and unwritable.

You have some text to process, open your text editor, you will probably use a dozen regular expressions for that - this is very frequent for many. Can you conceive a better syntax, at least for the simple cases?