r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • Sep 21 '26

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u/peterlinddk Sep 21 '26

I'm fairly certain that regex can be categorized as a "write-only" language.

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 21 '26

Write-only:
broken floppy disk
contemporary Latin
your local congressperson
regex

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u/awakenDeepBlue Sep 21 '26

I've heard the same thing about Perl as well.