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People seem to have forgotten what code was like back in the bad old days. Fuck that dogpile of bullshit. You've never seen a 1200 line diy function to parse
by dhzhzjsbevs 5y ago
People seem to have forgotten what code was like back in the bad old days.
Fuck that dogpile of bullshit.
You've never seen a 1200 line diy function to parse XML have you?
- Nursie 5y agoI apologise if I left you with that one when I left my first job in 2003! :)
- jenscow 5y agoWhen I joined in 2006, someone had replaced it with 21 regular expressions.
- tleilaxu 5y agoIt's alright, when I started there I turned those 21 regular expressions into a single enormous regular expression that could only be understood at the time of writing, and never understood by mere humans again. shudders