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Pretty sure it's a reference to this famous[1] joke: >> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they ha
by telemachos 15y ago
Pretty sure it's a reference to this famous[1] joke:
>> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
[1] http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
- gloob 15y agoThe correct response to that saying is to point out that regular expressions are significantly simpler than general-purpose, Turing-complete programming languages.