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Obcessive behaivour

Started by foreversarah, March 25, 2008, 09:57:48 AM

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Alyssa M.

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April 04, 2008, 02:22:07 AM
Amanda, that's neither an obsessive nor a TS trait -- it's a good programmer's trait. Like you said, you can read it and use it afterwards. (But mild OCD tends to bring it out a bit more.)

Regexps are beautiful, to me, precisely because they're so ugly. There's nothing like a little inline perl regexp magical incantation to make some poor n00b's eyes glaze over as you fix their file structure. ;D

More xkcd: Regular Expressions
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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lady amarant

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April 04, 2008, 05:55:54 AM
Quote from: Alyssa M. on April 04, 2008, 02:22:07 AM
Regexps are beautiful, to me, precisely because they're so ugly. There's nothing like a little inline perl regexp magical incantation to make some poor n00b's eyes glaze over as you fix their file structure. ;D

I get the idea that you take perverse pleasure in working with first-years...

~Simone,
       Uhm, ... I got nothing.
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