Funnily enough the quote on textmate grammars in the article feels quite relevant:
>The fact that we now have these complex grammars that end up producing beautiful tokens is more of a testament to the amazing computing power available to us than to the design of the [TextMate] grammar semantics.
>The fact that we now have these complex grammars that end up producing beautiful tokens is more of a testament to the amazing computing power available to us than to the design of the [TextMate] grammar semantics.
Amazing computing power available to them indeed.