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[โ€“] one_old_coder@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's the first time I've seen someone say that regular expressions are intelligent because they "understand" patterns.

[โ€“] StopTech@lemmy.today -1 points 1 month ago

People do talk about writing things that "the compiler can understand" so it's nothing new. Also I think you meant to say regular expressions understand strings, not patterns - or that regular expression engines understand patterns.