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Seeing my co-worker struggle with a regular expression reminded me of this quote by [livejournal.com profile] jwz:

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

—Jamie W. Zawinski on comp.emacs.xemacs, 12 Aug 1997.

Date: Monday, 16 August 2004 14:05 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nik-w.livejournal.com
Too true (or should that be "two true"?:p)!!

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