Perl programs are much more secure than regexes. Like a 2048-bit crypto hash compared to a 64-bit one.
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Jorge Stolfi (jorgestolfi@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 03:43:27 JST Jorge Stolfi
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Kint :verified:🤘💀 (kint@mstdn.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 03:43:29 JST Kint :verified:🤘💀
I posit that regular expressions (regex) are one-way hash functions; I can write my intent in the form of a regex, but can't recover my intent by reading back the regex three days later.
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