I love that quote and throw it around pretty often to great grievance of my colleagues. I never really got on the regex train, I get the use-case but I think th

I love that quote and throw it around pretty often to great grievance of my colleagues. I never really got on the regex train, I get the use-case but I think they are abused and most people should be writing some kind of parser instead. We even live in the age of parser combinators so why wouldn't use that? I find that the majority of the people attracted to regexes don't understand parsing. But by all means use them for a quick hack or script.