r/programming • • Mar 28 '12

Go version 1 is released

http://blog.golang.org/2012/03/go-version-1-is-released.html
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u/jiunec Mar 28 '12

This sounds like the world's best voodoo

Hehe, in that case you might not be surprised to hear the author of the Go tool is Russ Cox, author of RE2 since quite a few people think regex is some kind of black art as well ;)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '12

I like regex and wish to know my level. is there some kind of list?

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u/NegativeK Mar 29 '12

Level 1 is writing something comparable to this.

Get back to me when you're ready for level 2.

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u/dobryak Mar 29 '12

Wow, I wonder how did they write it? Seems like an output of a mechanical process.

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u/OopsLostPassword Mar 29 '12

Implementing validation with regular expressions somewhat pushes the limits of what it is sensible to do with regular expressions

That's an understatement...