Regex You Can Read: Why This Is Different and You Are Not Your Users
Discussion of the previous article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11700725" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11700725</a><p>My feeling about regex&#x27;s is that the difficulties lie mostly in building a mental model of automata and not in syntax. The syntax beyond the ordering of arguments between the &#x2F;&#x27;s doesn&#x27;t matter much. People find regular expressions difficult because they are sophisticated mathematics.