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Appreciate the compliment. :)

Yeah, that was the idea. Just a language for fun and specifically for code golf (solving programming problems in as small a program as possible). In the case of Retina, it turned o…

Yeah, it really is surprisingly similar to sed. "Surprisingly", because when I first designed the language I knew nothing about sed, and I still know very little (but I've seen peo…

FWIW, they're usually called esoteric programming languages/esolangs, but I'm not a fan of that term. That's why I've been using "recretional" instead. :)

Hi, author here! Thanks for the feedback. I'm not in charge of Try It Online, so I can't do anything about filling it with code by default, but as someone else noted, there is a He…

(I am not affiliated with Dinosaur Games in any way. Just a fan of the game.) > (Incidentally, branding aside, this article piqued my interest in the game. Is it worth a play?) I'v…

The problem is, regex flavors differ, and RegexPal uses JavaScript - whose regex flavor is really limited compared to most others (including Python). You should always try to find …

Yes, this is explicitly a tool that uses PCRE via PHP. So I'd expect the behaviour to exactly reflect that of the `preg` suite in PHP... which does not use `u` by default.

In the quiz, for competitive motivation it would be nice to see if you actually broke the current record on a quiz. Right now, there's no way to tell, whether you just caught up wi…