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10 lines to replace maybe 20 characters. How horribly verbose.

• tW4r 7y ago
  But that is exactly what I like about it. I rarely have to use regex, but when I do have to write or change something I always have to spend 15 mins reading (remembering) most of the things about it again, this would help me understand my old code way better.
  • mikorym 7y ago
    This is good point, and without trying to debate anything, regex is something of an art form for some people and I guess as many people are averse to it as there are high school people hating Shakespear. But to give a bit of substance, you can often use a dictionary type approach in a situation where regex is needed. Example: replacing accented latin with normal (ascii) latin. I do sometimes pride myself in necromancing skills of resurrection old Perl scripts from perlmonks.com but I suspect it is more of a hobby that out of absolute necessity. I find the memes about Perl/Python and Starwars to be pretty funny and much more entertaining than people actually debating programming languages. [1] [1] https://www.python.org/doc/humor/#python-vs-perl-according-to-yoda https://www.python.org/doc/humor/#python-vs-perl-according-t...
• ken 7y ago
  That describes all of Python, to an APL programmer.