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henry 🌘
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It’d be cool if widely-used programming languages made it easy to write parsers, so people could document their code, instead of writing regexes as strings of sigils
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SwiftOnSecurity
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My phishing/imitation detection Exchange rules have reached a high level of maturity and I’m thinking about how to release them. Unfortunately, some require per-company and per-executive customization of regular expressions. Explaining regular expressions is pretty daunting.
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henry 🌘
@hdevalence
The biggest con in software is making programs communicate in badly specified text formats, writing ad-hoc parsers either with a DSL made of sigils (regex) or a DSL made of buffer overflows (C), and convincing everyone it’s “simplicity”
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