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I agree in hindsight it's an overly provocative title. If I could change it I would (I have changed the actual blog post title FWIW). Sorry if it offended you o

• lectrick 12y ago
  Hey, I get that regexes can be a bit "dense" to understand. I've actually had to scale back my use of them at a prior job for the sake of the team (I was the most expert regex guy by far, but you can't have code that only 1 person is able to modify...) I love them for some reason because 1) they're like puzzles, 2) they're extremely fast if you know what you're doing, vs. doing the same things in interpreted code.