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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

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[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Then who's coming up with all the bits that I copy/paste off the internet? The regex dragon?

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

From what I've seen, it's Cthulhu.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

they likely aren't good regex's ;P ... anything with more than, say, 6 operators is probably missing an edge case or will be outdated in a year (and then it's impossible to determine its original intention)

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

There was only one, we're all still copying from him or her.