Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Using Regular Expressions - Computerphile" video.

  1. Some people, faced with the problem of comprehending a presentation on regular expressions, like to distract themselves with a well-known and overused Jamie Zawinski quote. Now they have two problems ...
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  2. 8:34 So lex was written by a guy named Lesk. So near, and yet so far ...
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  3. Don’t spend it all at once.
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  4. That’s still true in the Free Software world.
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  5. 3:12 By “letter” do you include everything in Unicode classes Ll and Lu? Because, you know, we don’t live in an ASCII-centric world any more...
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  6.  @llearch  I’m not sure I would put up with working at such a place.
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  7.  @FrankHarwald  That one was no coincidence.
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  8.  @FrankHarwald  No, the one I mentioned was indeed a (near) coincidence.
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  9.  @RealCadde  But even English uses diacritics. For example, “resumé” versus “resume”.
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  10.  @JanBruunAndersen  Be careful, though. Those sorts of things can be localization-dependent, which is not what we want here.
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  11. How many classes does it take to implement a regex in Java?
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  12. Best is to avoid such situations, by keeping your REs simple.
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  13.  @TofuBug24  That’s the kind of (mis)use of regexes Jamie Zawinski had in mind when he made his famous quote.
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