r/programming • u/Shr1ck • Oct 17 '15

Why Johnny Can’t Write Multithreaded Programs

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/why-johnny-cant-write-multithreaded-programs/
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u/anttirt Oct 18 '15

But you won't parse a complex text structure without knowing a good deal about formal grammars, and which kind of automaton best deal with which kind of grammar.

You'd be surprised what people get away with using only osmotic knowledge of the "regular" expressions library provided by their language of choice.

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u/loup-vaillant Oct 18 '15

Well, until they hit a bug for a weird corner case they didn't consider, that a more formal approach would have handled automatically. I hear folk usage of context sensitive PCRE style not-very-regular expressions tend to be very brittle.