compile-time regex redux

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Walter gave another good case study: Ruby on Rails. The success of Ruby 
> on Rails has a lot to do with its ability to express abstractions that
> were a complete mess to deal with in concreteland.

I found this essay to be pivotal in piquing my interest in this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

and a related one:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt