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		nyokodo on April 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any we... > I was … expecting it to be mostly black magic, but … the meat of the project is a bunch of … regexes Wait, regexes are the epitome of black magic. What do you consider as black magic?

fbdab103 on April 15, 2024 [–]

Macros? Any situation where code edits other code?

Sure, I could not write a regex engine, but the language itself can be fine if you keep it to straightfoward stuff. Unlike the famous e-mail parsing regex.

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