Parsing With Regex IQ Curve

NO!!! You need to write a real parser! Parsing with regex Parsing with regexes 34% 34% 14% 14% 68% 95% 2% 0.1% 0.1% 2% IQ score 55 70 85 100 115 130 145

A bell-curve IQ chart contrasts parsing with regex, parsing with regexes, and writing a real parser. The joke mocks programmers who insist that regular expressions are insufficient and that a proper parser is needed, while suggesting that both extremes are actually less sophisticated than the supposedly average approach. It is used as a humorous reaction in programming discussions about regex versus parsers.

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 6970 2023-06-18