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I'm surprised - Did you ask them how do they search for patterns? Entries in log files, function definitions or usage in code, matching files in a shell?

• jimhefferon 11y ago
  > Did you ask them how do they search for patterns? Entries in log files, function definitions or usage in code, matching files in a shell? You know, I have. In some ways it is like communicating across cultures in that the question does not seem to make all that much sense to them. That I can tell, they don't ever search for patterns. The would look for that feature in their GUI log reading program, I suppose. Failing that, they would write code, 100% in Java I think, and I suppose that if they had to do what I would reach for a regex to do, they would write code to do it. (Is this what jwz means by "Now they have two problems," that they should do the job in code?) But, again, I don't think there is a real communication there. I'm not too sure what they mean and they look like they do not recognize the situations I ask about.