[rhelz]

> It's not as exciting as it sounds.

De Gustibus. Some of us are into that sort of thing. Thanks for the link.

> Thompson: I write my lexers by hand. Much easier.

LMAO. If you've been doing it since the 60's, I suppose you get the hang of it:

Ken Thompson, “Regular expression search algorithm,” Communications of the ACM 11(6) (June 1968), pp. 419–422