Yeah I think it's news.
But from all XKCDs which reference Perl this is for me the hardest to understand the pun.
Perl is equivalent to using regex? What is "jay"?
Or is the supposed message that only an older generation wearing thick glasses uses Perl and there explanations are as cryptic as this strip?
... must be.
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Part of the joke is that it alludes to the well-known adage,
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
(source. Thanks to Jeffrey Friedl)
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies .
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s/problems//g;
No problem.
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The next one gives more insight into Perl!
Just s/emacs/perl/.
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