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by def-lkb 326 days ago
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libre/ dates back to 2001. (One could object it is not imperative enough, whatever that means :))
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burntsushi 326 days ago
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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