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Having been raised into the profession at a time when both Perl and Python were strong, the amount of times I have had to reach for regexes as a frequent soluti
by Daishiman 6y ago
Having been raised into the profession at a time when both Perl and Python were strong, the amount of times I have had to reach for regexes as a frequent solution to a problem is so rare that I can hardly see how it's a problem.
It's about as much of a problem as not having built-in linear algebra operators.
- fatbird 6y agoI thought this as well but didn't want to get sidetracked on a specific. Perl was one of my first languages and regexes were one of the big tools I started using, while I was processing text files. Once parsing lines of ASCII stopped being my major task, regexes stopped being a frequent tool.