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Automata Theory, including abstract machines, grammars, parsing, grammatical inference, transducers, and finite-state techniques
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Where do most REGEX implementations fall on the complexity scale?
PCRE, the most popular implementation of "regular expressions" also implements recursive patterns, which go beyond backreferences. A questions about their complexity has just been asked at Stackoverfl …
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Is the Chomsky-hierarchy outdated?
The Chomsky(–Schützenberger) hierarchy is used in textbooks of theoretical computer science, but it obviously only covers a very small fraction of formal languages (REG, CFL, CSL, RE) compared to the …