the original said reggae but i misread it as regex and got this idea lol

original comic artist: thisstupidtwink@insta

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I was a programmer for 25 years and I never needed to use regex for anything. Also never once needed to write a sorting algorithm. My favorite sorting algorithm was the “SORT BY” clause in SQL.

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      4 days ago

      you will find regex in numerous things that have nothing to do with writing code. i don’t even need to leave firefox to find several instances in the addons i have installed.

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      3 days ago

      I just ask an LLM if I ever need to create a regex query. Which is almost never hence I don’t understand regex. Many programmers don’t understand regex. Like when do you ever need regex if you program a game engine.