After reading Atwood's "Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way" article (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001311.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/0

After reading Atwood's "Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way" article (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001311.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001311.html), I'd like to add one more thought after reading the following section. "What we have here is an ongoing education problem. The real enemy isn't regular expressions (or, for that matter, goto), but ignorance. The only crime being perpetrated is not knowing what the alternatives are. " The article is lamenting a possible loss of knowledge over the accumulation of information where knowledge is the obvious preference. And I think that's the point I was originally trying to make with the "before radio" comment. People had less information to work with and yet possibly KNEW more with respect to the amount of information they had available to them.