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		da_chicken 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyway... That is what the joke is. That is often not what is meant when the joke is referenced.

andrewflnr 3 months ago [–]

Is it really? Maybe I'm blessed with innocence, but I've never been tempted to read it as anything but a humorous commentary on formal language theory.

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