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Posted by Kimmo Laine on 12/19/06 13:19
"Kleine Aap" <een-niet-bestaande-kleineaap@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> Asper Faner wrote:
>
>> I seem to always have hard time understaing how this regular expression
>> works, especially how on earth do people bring it up as part of
>> computer programming language. Natural language processing seems not
>> enough to explain by the way. Why no eliminate it ?
>
> I.M.H.O. anyone that is not capable to grasp the concept of regular
> expressions should not attempt to write computer programs at all! My
> suggestion to you would be to find a job that involves working with your
> hands...
I disagree. I did fine for a few years without having a clue of what the
heck regular exps are and why they are quite useful. At some point I noticed
that I keep running into similar problems that all seem to have a trivial
solution with regular expressions and a complex solution using sticks, glue
and some magic. Naturally the sticks and glue were my primary choice cos I
didn't know regexp's s well... Finally I gave up and started fiddling with
reg exps, just a little at first, then some more and some more. Now I can
say that I have some basic comprehension of regexps and I use them every now
and then when needed. When you keep hitting your head to a brick wall long
time enough, you'll eventually learn to go around it or become a graphic
designer.
The basic problem was that RegExp's were never mentioned when I was back in
school learning all this programming shit so I had no basic understanding of
it when I started writing php 9 to 5. But I eventually got it.
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