“My boss said it would take about two weeks by hand… I spent two days learning regex and wrote a refactoring using regular expressions…”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
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What was described
Wrote a regular-expression based refactoring script to add a break condition to every Fortran 77 loop across ~8,000 files
estimated 2 weeks by hand, completed in 2 days with regex
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