15 Dec
2003
15 Dec
'03
12:08 p.m.
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:
Meanwhile, I'll quote from Jamie Zawinski's gdb-highlight.el:
;; This code should be considered an example of how over-use of regular ;; expressions leads to code that is an unreadable, unmaintainable mess, ;; and why it's unfortunate that so much of emacs's speed depends on ;; their use, rather than on the use of more traditional parsers.
And try not to follow suite :P
He's said it better: Sometimes a programmer, when faced with a problem, thinks "I know, I'll solve it with a regular expression". Now he has two problems. A wise man. But if I ever meet him, I'm gonna punch him in the nose for all the time I've spent porting stuff to XEmacs ;-) Cheers, Luke