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Possibly. The treaty has not been signed yet.

Things will become clearer in the coming weeks.

I'm a citizen of the Republic of Mauritius and, when this news was announced today, there was a general sense of relief.

Mauritius has been fighting for its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago (with Diego Garcia being the largest island) for 56 years.

Today, the Chagos Archipelago is part of Mauritius again and a treaty will (hopefully) soon be signed between the UK and Mauritius.

From there, Mauritius will sign a lease agreement of 99 years with the USA so that the military base there can continue to operate.

Of course, there will surely be a lot of money involved but we don't have the details yet.

This is an awesome read. Really enjoyed the level of detail and the various tries before things work.

Cool. I would suggest to make it multilingual as the T, M and J labels are not easy to understand by those who don't speak German.

Thanks. This is an excellent read. His journey from Latvia to the United States via Germany is very interesting.

His seminal paper on the Complexity of Algorithms is truly fascinating.

Aha. I wrote this post 15 years ago after explaining to my wife (who is a Language major) how this "regular expression" works.

It has been discussed a few times on Hacker News, Reddit, etc. over the past 15 years...

Same for me. What a coincidence!

Read the book, which I obtained from the British Council library, when I was around 15. I have to say that the book made quite an impression on me at the time.

I am quite impressed by the image quality and the sharpness for something that was used in the 60s. Of course, digital screens are better now but whoever invented the Eidophor at that time did extremely well.

I am Mauritian and the whole country is incredibly proud of this achievement, small David against huge Goliath.

Of course, we also know that there is still a long way to go before the conclusion.

Thanks for sharing. This is a post I wrote way back in 2007 and, even though, as many have pointed out, the algorithm is very inefficient, it is still a good illustration of how powerful regular expressions are.

When I am explaining the basics of regular expressions to people, I always refer them to this post to make them realize that regular expressions are not only glorified search terms. In general, they are amazed :-)

RIP Atul Chitnis. Met him during a conference in Mauritius around 2002 and we had a great conversation about open source software in poor(er) countries.

I think this is an excellent article and it's clear that the guy who wrote that did a lot of research.