The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

/oracle/app/oracle/admin/txct1 (/dev/vx/dsk/dev05/txct1_admin) : 384526 total allocated Kb /oracle/app/oracle/admin/txsb1 (/dev/vx/dsk/dev05/txsb1_admin) : 96476 ...

I once asked a software developer at work how many times we called fork() in our code. I’ll admit, it was a very large project, but I expected the answer to be — at most — two digits. The developer ...