> For many products today, it’s very difficult or impossible for most people to verify the product works. Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I

> For many products today, it’s very difficult or impossible for most people to verify the product works. Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. - Jamie Zawinski via Coding Horror [0] To your point, maybe Zawinski's aphorism is broader than regexp. The quote investigation [1] linked from CH is well worth reading. 0. https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-have-two-problems/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha... 1. http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247