Introducing Regular Expressions
by Michael Fitzgerald · first published 2012
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It’s a pretty common quote from Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald, used as a quip.
on “The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)” ↗…doing dumb things, but it also doesn't stop you from doing clever things." -- Dennis Ritchie. I asked Bard for a source on those quotes and it couldn't find one for the first. Wikiquotes sources it to "Introducing Regular Expressions" by Michael Fitzgerald and that does include it as a quote but it's not the source of the quote, it's just a nice quote at the start of the chapter. For the second, Bard claims to be from a 1990 interview…
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