Why aren't regular expressions a lingua franca? an empirical study on the re-use and portability of regular expressions

James C. Davis, Louis G. Michael IV, Christy A. Coghlan, Francisco Servant, Dongyoon Lee. Why aren't regular expressions a lingua franca? an empirical study on the re-use and portability of regular expressions. In Marlon Dumas, Dietmar Pfahl, Sven Apel, Alessandra Russo, editors, Proceedings of the ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2019, Tallinn, Estonia, August 26-30, 2019. pages 443-454, ACM, 2019. [doi]

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