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ugh. do they really need to be good at regex? we don't all work on the internet you know... regex is basically pointless for most application development. most
by jheriko 13y ago
ugh.
do they really need to be good at regex? we don't all work on the internet you know... regex is basically pointless for most application development. most programmers i consider to be exceptionally talented can not write a regex without reference (although they will do it when necessary by using reference - and very well too).
on the other hand the general approach to problem solving advocated here is quite sound. "find good tools" "don't rush pointlessly" "measure don't guess" "google is good, copy-paste blindly is bad"
- vacri 13y agowe don't all work on the internet you know... And the author didn't say that you must know regex to be a good dev. He said that he was learning it, and that he was putting more effort into it and finding it was paying off. "I want to be a good developer one day, and I think as a young developer we should put in the extra time to try and really understand something and not just always do what is the quickest."
- UK-AL 13y agoRegEx probably has most use in data validation, which has nothing to do with internet.
- jheriko 13y agoi generally backlash against this. i've seen articles where people are stupid enough to say "if you don't know regex, you aren't good" my experience tells me the converse is true. good programmers are so good they end up working in environments where regex is an irrelevant curiosity and almost never a tool.