On: Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and parsing

[ecounysis]

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

~jwz

[6ren → ecounysis]

I thought you were just having a cheap shot, but then I read the story, and that's exactly his sentiment.

[dramaticus3 → ecounysis]

I'll pop this quote here too

"If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better." — John Carmack