January 22, 2010
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems."

From Jamie Zawinski, on comp.lang.emacs.

Seems that the now they have two problems kind of quote can be quite adaptable (s/regular expressions/threads/), but today it’s as true as back in 1997.

The now they have two problems is one of my favourite, followed by History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as XML (a Karl Marx quote evolved).

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