[Cialug] some truth to that

[Nathan Stien]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:07 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/02/page/4/
>
> Writing regular expressions isn't _that_ hard, especially if you build
> them up piece by piece.  Also, a solid understanding of their
> limitations is essential.
>

Great comic!  I clicked around and also liked this one:
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/05/16/roulette-russe-2/

In my experience, however, *writing* regular expressions is about 100x
easier than *reading* nontrivial regexes written by others, or even those
written by oneself 6+ months prior.