Timeline for What is meant by "Now you have two problems"?
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| S May 6, 2018 at 12:29 | history | notice added | Thomas Owens♦ | Historical significance | |
| S May 6, 2018 at 12:29 | history | locked | Thomas Owens♦ | ||
| May 6, 2018 at 0:50 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 12:53 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 21, 2016 at 8:37 | comment | added | Mateusz | I would update this question with link to this post: stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/… | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 17:37 | history | edited | Ixrec | edited tags | |
| May 21, 2014 at 9:51 | comment | added | badp | Previously | |
| May 18, 2014 at 9:40 | comment | added | Fabian Zeindl | Just watch your performance and use something like rubular.com. | |
| S May 16, 2014 at 22:19 | history | suggested | samthebrand | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added source of quote, or rather in-depth post exploring true source. |
| May 16, 2014 at 22:02 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 24, 2014 at 22:25 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| Jan 17, 2014 at 3:48 | answer | added | smonff | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 12:13 | comment | added | maple_shaft♦ | Please avoid extended discussions in the comments sections. If you would like to have an extended conversation then visit the Chat Room | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 12:11 | history | notice added | maple_shaft♦ | Needs detailed answers | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 11:06 | comment | added | TRiG | A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, "I know, I'll solve it with threads!". has Now problems. two he | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 10:27 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @Euphoric Actually it’s typically the other way round: with a little bit of care, even complex regex are easier to understand and maintain than equivalent non-regex parsing code. JZW’s quote is pure FUD, and abused almost as often as Knuth’s adage about premature optimisation (which, despite being often abused, at least has a kernel of truth). | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 7:14 | comment | added | James Anderson | @IQAndreas -- but any tool or facility can be misused its not a particular problem with regexes or perl. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 3:44 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jan 10, 2014 at 1:19 | comment | added | IQAndreas | @JamesAnderson Actually, when looking at the context of the quote, that does not seem to be the case: programmers.stackexchange.com/a/223641/103266 | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 1:16 | comment | added | James Anderson | Jamie disliked and did not 'grok' regexes. Its a pretty stupid quote as its an "I don't like broccoli" preference pretending to be some sort of wisdom. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 23:22 | comment | added | detly | Some people, when trying to explain something, think "I know, I'll use a Jamie Zawinski quote." Now they have two things to explain. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 20:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/421379073903190016 | ||
| Jan 9, 2014 at 19:24 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | @IQAndreas: I think it is intended to be semi-humorous. The comment that's being made is that if you are not careful, using regular expressions can make things worse instead of better. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:52 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 67 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:43 | comment | added | IAbstract | Just like a project I have: create an API (usually in C# as COM visible) for a Perl script. We need a TelNet app - we have one written in Perl. I don't know Perl. I can't use the TelNet source from C#. So, we haven't solved the first problem and now we have a 2nd problem: write a Perl API instead of C#, or write a TelNet class in C#. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:37 | answer | added | IQAndreas | timeline score: 51 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | user8709 | @Euphoric - actually, good code is short - but without being cryptically concise. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:28 | answer | added | user40980 | timeline score: 218 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:24 | answer | added | Jeffery Thomas | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:11 | comment | added | Euphoric | @IQAndreas Good code is not short. It is understandable and clear. And regexes are far from understandable. Especially the complex ones. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:10 | answer | added | Ampt | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:06 | comment | added | IQAndreas | @Ampt I still don't follow, you can do a lot of great things with Regex, things that would take a hundred lines in plain code. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven | IOW, according to the quotee, resorting to regex is like saying, "My leg itches; I think I'll chop it off." | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | Euphoric | Read codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/… | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | Ampt | The 2nd problem is that they are using regex and still haven't solved the first problem, hence 2 problems. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 17:55 | comment | added | IQAndreas | I'm not sure which SE site this question belongs on, but I posted it here, because if he means there is a problem with using regular expressions to solve problems, I'm guessing the answer is on-topic here. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 17:54 | history | asked | IQAndreas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 7:53 | answer | added | Kaz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 6:59 | answer | added | dan mackinlay | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 13, 2013 at 11:26 | comment | added | James P. | What he might mean is that regular expressions might not be suited for solving the problem. Like parsing HTML ? | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 23:25 | answer | added | tylerl | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 20:20 | comment | added | user8 | This type of question is now being discussed on our meta-discussion site. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 19:38 | answer | added | Juha Autero | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 30, 2010 at 8:10 | answer | added | Vatine | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 30, 2010 at 6:44 | answer | added | Brad Clawsie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 16:46 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | Consider also "Some people, when faced with a problem, think "I know, I'll dismiss it with a witticism." Now they have zero problems" - twitter.com/#!/jongalloway/status/28863872993 | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 13:06 | answer | added | Frank Shearar | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 11, 2010 at 13:49 | answer | added | Peter Boughton | timeline score: 21 | |
| Oct 11, 2010 at 13:47 | comment | added | livibetter | I was trying to find the context, it's better to guess what he means. It could be nothing much about regex, but a metaphor. Anyway, I found this page: Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote | |
| Oct 11, 2010 at 13:33 | answer | added | Guffa | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 11, 2010 at 13:32 | answer | added | ChrisF | timeline score: 95 |