The thing is that parsing is a solved problem and has been for decades. But because this sounds like you must be incompetent if you can't do it, people get very

The thing is that parsing is a solved problem and has been for decades. But because this sounds like you must be incompetent if you can't do it, people get very defensive if you say it's easy. Everyone who believes that parsing is terrifying is highly invested in that belief. And it does take time to learn how parsers work. Write a parser, a parser generator, a regex engine, and then tell everyone else "it's easy" and see how that goes.