Re: Regular Expressions -- Backtracking?

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:52:12 -0400

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Eric Sosman wrote:

Java also provides the ability to establish an encrypted network
connection to a String-splitting server, get back all pairs of
consecutive characters, send them in turn over the network to a
letters-only filtering server, get the filtered pairs back, load
them all into a relational database, and retrieve them with SQL.

Arved Sandstrom wrote

Please God, don't crack wise like that around some of the managers and
architects I've worked with. :-) Phrased just a bit differently this
is exactly the kind of system they'd go for.
[ SNIP ]

Mike Schilling wrote:

And you could pull in some developers I've worked with by putting
string-splitting and letters-only-filtering in different classes (to
reduce coupling) and wiring the two together with a Spring XML
configuration

Half of me wants to burn you all at the stake, half of me wants shower you
with awards, and half of me wants to implement that system and foist it onto
one of those managers or architects.

It'll be RESTful web services, of course, based on that Ruby code that Robert
Klemme posted a while back.

--
Lew