I anticipated I could well be wrong. I ALSO anticipated it would be a hard statement for people to take

I think it was a reasonable statement -- I can't research everything I say, and I had read re2 and regexes in rust to be the same

Interesting to read about redgrep and derivatives approach. Currently I'm programming a language that adds turing completeness to PEG expressions -- as in functions, but extended so the lhs is like a PEG -- just as function body can call sub functions, so too can the lhs

I'm hoping this will give a simple unified language

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Philosophically:

We make mistakes. If we can't handle that, then either we don't speak or program; or we deny it, program in c, then have flamewars and real wars

Or thirdly, we accept it, program in rust, and let others correct us

We can say you are my rustc compiler. So in effect I used a rust philosophy..... While programming in c