the correct way to write regular expressions
FlohEinstein 📞3564 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I just finished another war against RegEx... Anyone else know the feeling? #regex #infosec #development #programming #RegularExpressions (Updated picture to make it say O RLY)

chaos.social
@i0null
Essentially correct, but needs more headdesk.
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s/(chimp typing)/$1 and headdesk/
@i0null And here I am, thinking it involves a cat and a keyboard …

Recent scientific breakthroughs have suggested that cats only write regular expressions when they're stressed, so there's been a gradual phase out

@Konrad @i0null

@i0null Have you seen this piece from 1977: It takes the million monkeys at a million typewriters notion to an interesting extreme:

How Artificial Is Intelligence? The great works of literature and art are not merely rare statistical fluctuations, but are they simply the products of correlation matrices?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27848169

How Artificial Is Intelligence? The great works of literature and art are not merely rare statistical fluctuations, but are they simply the products of correlation matrices? on JSTOR

W. R. Bennett Jr., How Artificial Is Intelligence? The great works of literature and art are not merely rare statistical fluctuations, but are they simply the products of correlation matrices?, American Scientist, Vol. 65, No. 6 (November-December 1977), pp. 694-702

@i0null Yes, provided we have enough monkeys and enough time to type it out.