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		BlueTemplar on Jan 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why developers never use state machines (2011) Well yes, because state machines are identical to regular expressions... though regular expressions tend to be used quite a lot ?

hot_gril on Jan 23, 2023 [–]

Yeah, in most cases I won't even get into manual parsing and will use a regex instead. But sometimes I have to break out the FSM.

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