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<p dir="auto">Easy to implement:</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">On 1331 "Easy" to use, Neil must have had his tongue in cheek, just ignore the thousands of lines of <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/scite/ci/default/tree/src/" rel="nofollow">Scite</a> which is just a "test editor", but not easy to write a lexer for a language which was what we are talking about.</p>
<p dir="auto">1074 is one persons opinion, not gospel truth, only <em>my</em> opinion is gospel truth <g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="grin" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f601.png">😁</g-emoji> [end humility]</p>
<p dir="auto">"Worse is better" says the user experience is poor to simplify implementation, but I would argue the implementation difficulty of writing lexers in C++ results in a better user experience due to the speed, try opening a big HTML in Geany and in gedit (which uses regex syntax highlighting).  But certainly the lexer development experience is worse if you are not a C++ist.</p>

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