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Conversation this week:
Them: "How did you learn about regex? Javascript? Python?"
Me: "sed"
Them: "Oh I've not heard of that. Is that new?"
Me: <laughed in greybeard>
@backupbear got to know regex with Perl, the new hot shit
@rdfhrn @backupbear When I started exploring the WWW because it was fresh and new and looked more interesting than the BBS that were still around back then, Perl/CGI was how you'd do serious programming (DHTML/Javascript existed but were more of a toy you used to make something blink or appear before AJAX became a thing). I still love regex from that time and have to be careful to not overuse it when collaborating with others.