Quoting Doug Gwyn in Michael Fitzgerald, Introducing Regular Expressions, 2012

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

— Doug Gwyn in Michael Fitzgerald, Introducing Regular Expressions, 2012 (via)

7:58pm on November 18, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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