[GTALUG] Hardcore sed foo

[Dave Collier-Brown]

On 2019-11-08 3:13 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>
No, that was "you can say anything 27 ways",  but you have to use words.

--dave

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