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by fbdab103 795 days ago
I was honestly expecting it to be mostly black magic, but it looks like the meat of the project is a bunch of (surely hard won) regexes. Nifty.
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> I was … expecting it to be mostly black magic, but … the meat of the project is a bunch of … regexes

Wait, regexes are the epitome of black magic. What do you consider as black magic?

Macros? Any situation where code edits other code?

Sure, I could not write a regex engine, but the language itself can be fine if you keep it to straightfoward stuff. Unlike the famous e-mail parsing regex.