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Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach
Name the most widely used bytecode interpreter or virtual machine. Sun's JVM? Adobe's Flash? .NET and Mono? Perl? Python? PHP? These are all certainly popular, but there's one more widely used than all those combined. That bytecode interpreter is Henry Spencer's regular expression library and its many descendants.
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Software EngineeringMath & Algorithms2009
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Dec 10, 2009 | Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach by blasdel | 53 | 2 |
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