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submitted 1 month ago by Vordimous@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Self-explainable, when you aren't writing spaghetti Perl scripts.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

//forgive my sins, it took me 2 hours to nail down this arcane spell. if anyone touches this they will know my wrath
=(/&)((//((%=)(&)%)(&()

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then it breaks years after you’ve left and someone has no choice but to touch it

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or breaks a year later and your have to figure out what the fuck you made. The worst thing in the world is when you leave it for the next guy, and you end up being the next guy.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah…. I’ve definitely been the next guy on a couple bad regexes that I wrote