Im sorry but the classics never go out of style:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."

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stavros 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah but it's kind of tired when it's being used every time someone makes a mistake with regex. I've used them extensively in my career and never once regretted it.

	▲	apgwoz 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		The problem with regexps is that “Sometimes a smart person, who has done the work, and knows how to leverage regular expressions correctly, decides they are appropriate for solving a problem where there is shared maintenance. Now, you have people who haven’t put in the work, and have been told repeatedly through ‘witty quips’ to not bother.”

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jodrellblank 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The second problem being how to deal with all the extra time they just freed up?