[oak perl] Regular Expressions

[Belden Lyman]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:37, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:26:14PM -0800, Belden Lyman wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Can anyone explain this?
> 
> Um, yeah.  You're writing code as cleverly as possible, and here's
> what Kernighan had to say about that:
> 
>     Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
>     place.  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible,
>     you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
> 

Emerson:

      I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

> Belden, you're a smart, sensible guy.  Why are you doing this to
> yourself?
> 

Confucius:

     Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without
     learning is perilous.

Belden, replying in kind