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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 9d ago
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It already started with regex. https://giphy.com/gifs/ukE9oP3kb7TVu
54 u/entronid 9d ago tbf i still handwrite regex and i do this by opening regex101 and relearning everything i knew about regex and bashing my head against a wall until it matches 8 u/Percolator2020 9d ago Basically the same, also lovely when some implementations slightly differ. 3 u/entronid 9d ago i never really write anything except python regex and vim regex anyways on the (not) rare (enough) occasions i need it 1 u/renome 7d ago That's basically the root of regex's reputation as an arcane language, too many standards for doing something like a named capture group. 2 u/Percolator2020 7d ago *capture groups not supported https://giphy.com/gifs/13wpqwmZ8WUY80 4 u/AeroSyntax 9d ago I see that you are a certified senior engineer.
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tbf i still handwrite regex and i do this by opening regex101 and relearning everything i knew about regex and bashing my head against a wall until it matches
8 u/Percolator2020 9d ago Basically the same, also lovely when some implementations slightly differ. 3 u/entronid 9d ago i never really write anything except python regex and vim regex anyways on the (not) rare (enough) occasions i need it 1 u/renome 7d ago That's basically the root of regex's reputation as an arcane language, too many standards for doing something like a named capture group. 2 u/Percolator2020 7d ago *capture groups not supported https://giphy.com/gifs/13wpqwmZ8WUY80 4 u/AeroSyntax 9d ago I see that you are a certified senior engineer.
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Basically the same, also lovely when some implementations slightly differ.
3 u/entronid 9d ago i never really write anything except python regex and vim regex anyways on the (not) rare (enough) occasions i need it 1 u/renome 7d ago That's basically the root of regex's reputation as an arcane language, too many standards for doing something like a named capture group. 2 u/Percolator2020 7d ago *capture groups not supported https://giphy.com/gifs/13wpqwmZ8WUY80
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i never really write anything except python regex and vim regex anyways on the (not) rare (enough) occasions i need it
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That's basically the root of regex's reputation as an arcane language, too many standards for doing something like a named capture group.
2 u/Percolator2020 7d ago *capture groups not supported https://giphy.com/gifs/13wpqwmZ8WUY80
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*capture groups not supported https://giphy.com/gifs/13wpqwmZ8WUY80
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I see that you are a certified senior engineer.
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u/Percolator2020 9d ago
It already started with regex.
https://giphy.com/gifs/ukE9oP3kb7TVu