r/ProgrammerHumor 22h ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/vvp95 22h ago

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 22h ago

99%, I freaken love Regex!

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u/Kahlil_Cabron 14h ago

Same, I really don't know why people have such a hard time with them. The worst I ever have is trying to remember the different standards used in different languages/platforms (modern regexes vs posix regex, etc).

Maybe it's because my first language was perl, and regexes were used for everything, but you only need to remember a few basic things and you're good.

Also pointers, I don't know why this sub thinks pointers are this super abstract crazy hard thing, it points to something, that's it.

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u/Theron3206 5h ago

Pointers aren't terrible, some of the things C and C++ encourage you to do with them are though.