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This is a case-insensitive regex search for strings with 3-4 letters in them.
by eapen 15y ago
This is a case-insensitive regex search for strings with 3-4 letters in them.
- dfc 15y agoYikes, I'm sorry I pasted incorrectly. I meant to post: What does this mean: Just another /[a-z]{3,4}/i hacker I understand the re but I am curious about the context.
- JadeNB 15y agoI guess it is meant to match 'leet'? I'm not sure why there's the option for 3 letters, though …. EDIT: Ah, got it (I think). It's referring to being a polymath hacker: "Just another vim hacker", "Just another perl hacker", "Just another Unix hacker", etc.
- dfc 15y agoOkay. That's what I was thinking too but I couldn't stop wondering if there was anything more to it. But he is not a hacker of any of the following? OS X Linux Emacs C++ C Python Sh Haskell Go Network Computer Prolog Scheme The 3,4 seems so limiting that it kind of vitiates the witty/cute aspect of the tagline...
- JadeNB 15y agoMany of these can be shoehorned in: Mac, -, -, cpp, gcc, -, -, ghc, ogle, -, -, -, Lisp. (I know that Scheme is not the same as Lisp, and that a language is not the same as its compiler; but would you have "Just another .* hacker"? :-) ) (Also, I can't remember if 'ogle' is actually a tool in the Go language toolkit, although I seem to remember someone saying that it should be. Googling 'go ogle' doesn't have much luck, since Google thinks it knows what I really meant.)