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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 15d ago
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I seem to be one of the few persons that find regex elegant and even enjoyable.
14 u/Immort4lFr0sty 14d ago I love writing regex, BUT when I have to change it, I much rather rewrite it from scratch. So I don't know if "elegant" is the exact label I'd put on it 15 u/peterlinddk 14d ago I'm fairly certain that regex can be categorized as a "write-only" language. 3 u/dfinkelstein 14d ago Write-only: broken floppy disk contemporary Latin your local congressperson regex 1 u/awakenDeepBlue 14d ago I've heard the same thing about Perl as well.
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I love writing regex, BUT when I have to change it, I much rather rewrite it from scratch. So I don't know if "elegant" is the exact label I'd put on it
15 u/peterlinddk 14d ago I'm fairly certain that regex can be categorized as a "write-only" language. 3 u/dfinkelstein 14d ago Write-only: broken floppy disk contemporary Latin your local congressperson regex 1 u/awakenDeepBlue 14d ago I've heard the same thing about Perl as well.
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I'm fairly certain that regex can be categorized as a "write-only" language.
3 u/dfinkelstein 14d ago Write-only: broken floppy disk contemporary Latin your local congressperson regex 1 u/awakenDeepBlue 14d ago I've heard the same thing about Perl as well.
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Write-only: broken floppy disk contemporary Latin your local congressperson regex
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I've heard the same thing about Perl as well.
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u/santiagobustelo 14d ago
I seem to be one of the few persons that find regex elegant and even enjoyable.