I never went to school and struggle greatly with regex. Worked in IT for 41 years, write in C++, Typescript, Rust, Verilog. Is it just me who has issues because my workaround is to go and asked anyone but me how do I do xyz and they know the answer.
I find that when I'm working with regex for a while I get okay with it, but if any time passes by, I definitely start again with puffed cheeks and a wince. Scratch-pads certainly help though, as does bash history. AI for sure, where you can just ask it to explain or debug an expression.
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Having said that, I could not part with this: https://archive.org/details/from-chips-to-systems-zaks-rodnay/page/n1/mode/1up
Even after all these years
I have 3 editions of Tanenbaum’s “Computer Networks”, as interesting snapshots of what was considered important in that subject at different times.
Even have it on my personnel scratchpad https://www.bibble.co.nz/wiki/Regex_101
Just curious if it is just me. I am dyslexic but mostly words like who/how. Bus regex just seems hard. YouTube and now AI a massive help.