[GTALUG] Hardcore sed foo

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Nov 8 15:13:55 EST 2019


On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:27:47PM +0000, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> On 2019-11-08 11:41 a.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> 
> > Eyeballing simple regex is hard enough, but mentally parsing out a
> > complex full line regex that looks like inline garbage without the
> > benefit of comments isn't something I recommend or appreciate.
> 
> An early boss described it as "programming in line noise".

I thought that was perl.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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