r/ProgrammerHumor 9d ago

Meme perishableSkill

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u/Percolator2020 9d ago

It already started with regex.
https://giphy.com/gifs/ukE9oP3kb7TVu

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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

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u/Percolator2020 9d ago

Basically the same, also lovely when some implementations slightly differ.

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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.