Sidenote: that's actually a reference to a usenet post from 1997 by Jamie Zawinsk, a Netscape engineer and the driving force behind the open-sourcing of the Moz

Sidenote: that's actually a reference to a usenet post from 1997 by Jamie Zawinsk, a Netscape engineer and the driving force behind the open-sourcing of the Mozilla codebase. In the original, Zawinski was talking about regex: > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. Zawinski's post, in turn was a reference to a 1988 sigfile from John Myers, quoting D. Tilbrook: > Whenever faced with a problem, some people say "Let's use AWK." Now, they have two problems. You can find a detailed history here: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247