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[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If they know Regex, assume you are in Sarumans tower and held captive until a hawk comes in.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks...

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Tbh the frequent pain from needing to read it again often happens because it was so hard to write correctly that it misbehaves on some data and you need to adjust it.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's a write only language