[slime-devel] Re: Clicky things in the REPL.

[Luke Gorrie]

lawrence mitchell <wence at gmx.li> writes:

> Meanwhile, I'll quote from Jamie Zawinski's gdb-highlight.el:
> 
> ;; This code should be considered an example of how over-use of regular
> ;; expressions leads to code that is an unreadable, unmaintainable mess,
> ;; and why it's unfortunate that so much of emacs's speed depends on
> ;; their use, rather than on the use of more traditional parsers.
> 
> And try not to follow suite :P

He's said it better:

  Sometimes a programmer, when faced with a problem, thinks "I know,
  I'll solve it with a regular expression". Now he has two problems.

A wise man. But if I ever meet him, I'm gonna punch him in the nose
for all the time I've spent porting stuff to XEmacs ;-)

Cheers,
Luke