I know, I'll use regular expressions.
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 16:22![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pneI've heard of the famous quote
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.”
Now they have two problems.
attributed to Jamie Zawinski (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
jwz), but I hadn't been able to discover the source.
Jeffrey Friedl, on his blog, wrote an article a couple of years ago in which he went digging for the source of the quotation.
An interesting read; see also the comments, some of which shed further light on the history of this and related phrases. (There's also a comment by jwz himself.)
