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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by Yajirobe on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:12AM (#36861117)
> If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes.

Jesus this is cringe

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by zeroonetwothree on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:34AM (#36862862)
I thought it was amusing. Reminds me of a lot of 90s internet humor.
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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by RHSeeger on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:38AM (#36863923)
To be fair, that question was written during a period when "how do I parse this html with regular expressions" was asked multiple times per day. And "regular expressions are not a reasonable tool to do that, use a parser" was the correct response to 99% of them. And, at some point, someone decided to throw out a more amusing version of that response. It _was_ funny at the time.
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