So, You Want To Write Your Own Programming Language?

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> On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 10:36:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:

> I'm wonder why is there so many books about implementing 
> compilers that spends, usually, quite a large chapter about 
> regular expressions?

I wonder about that too. For anything halfway useful regex has 
too much limitations. Wich you only find out in later chapter or 
pretty soon in your parser :D