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People seem to have forgotten what code was like back in the bad old days.

Fuck that dogpile of bullshit.

You've never seen a 1200 line diy function to parse XML have you?



I apologise if I left you with that one when I left my first job in 2003!

:)


When I joined in 2006, someone had replaced it with 21 regular expressions.


It's alright, when I started there I turned those 21 regular expressions into a single enormous regular expression that could only be understood at the time of writing, and never understood by mere humans again.

shudders




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