> "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ''I know, I'll use regular expressions!''. Now they have two problems." This is a sort of funny tongue-in

> "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ''I know, I'll use regular expressions!''. Now they have two problems." This is a sort of funny tongue-in-cheek jab, not a factual statement. I'd chuckle if I heard someone say it in real life, but also eye-roll internally. There are some people who will write lines of substr code to trim whitespace from a string. That is the type of person I would expect to crack this joke. Regular expressions are fine, just like an oil filter wrench is fine. I wouldn't use an oil filter wrench to tighten a nut/bolt. I wouldn't write a single regular expression to validate an email address or implement a lexer. While I respect the effort put into making this project, I see it mostly as a distraction for new developers. If you are confused by regular expressions, you may be trying to do too much with them and/or you need to put some effort into mastering them (I recommend Jeffrey Friedl's Master Regular Expressions). If you try to pretend regular expressions don't exist, you are going to have a bad time. You will encounter them, unless you never touch existing code during your tenure. I also don't think this syntax is better. Regular expressions are terse, and that is a feature. It may feel like an anti-feature in larger expressions, but the secret is that if you are writing huge regular expressions, you are probably doing something wrong.