On 11/02/2015 08:51 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: >[...] > Indeed, sometimes Jamie Zawinski's is often quite appropriate: > > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use > regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Or its sometimes heard paraphrase: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Python." Now they have two problems The point being it's a cute and memorable aphorism but not very meaningful because it can be applied to anything one wishes to denigrate. Of course there are people who misuse regexes. But I am quite sure, especially in the Python community, there are just as many who fail to use them when they are appropriate which is just as bad. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
