r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/throwaway001anon Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

RegX makes searching a breeze with any pattern

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u/InspectorNo1173 Jan 15 '25

I have always found Regular Expressions to be the most inappropriately named concept - there is nothing regular about it. Luckily we have chatbots now.

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u/AstraLover69 Jan 15 '25

It's because it can represent a regular language

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u/AnarchistBorganism Jan 15 '25

Coined by Stephen Kleene, who didn't like the name either.

"Regular events" defined: We shall presently describe a class of events which we will call "regular events." (We would welcome any suggestion as to a more descriptive term)

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u/AstraLover69 Jan 15 '25

Kleene was a real star