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

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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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January 30, 2009
Chirpy! is an Open Source online quote management system. It allows you to keep a database of quotes by friends and foes. It is most useful for quotes collected on IRC channels.

Chirpy! is written in Object-Oriented Perl and it’s used in several sites, including BuBash.org!

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