@EvilJS It's unlikely that these methods will give you the same regular expression.

@stillenat Converting regular expressions into automata is a mechanical task; search for Thompson's method.

@Raphael what? Why the same?

@EvilJS unlikely

@EvilJS We decided a while ago to keep them; it makes offtopic questions easy to spot, and there may be the odd language-design or whatnot question where the tag has legitimate use. Also, if we forbade the tag, posters of programming questions would just use worse tags.

@Raphael honeypot tags? lol

Neither two languages nor two schemes (one for DFA one for NFA) are the same. But minimal DFA is unique.

Science Education Is Woefully Uncreative. That Has to Change / wired

@mdxn Yup. ;] Ask @Gilles about the details, he was making the point originally.

@Raphael honeypot wasn't my idea, I want those tags because they're warranted

@ValentinTihomirov Explicit message passing is a lot easier to program with. Shared memory is a mess of race conditions. Shared memory often has nonintuitive performance and correctness properties (programmers believe that an assignment in one thread is immediately seen in another, and a lot of consistency properties, but these are rarely true because information takes a while to propagate, even multi-core single-node systems due to caching)

Fair point, honeypot it is.