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Mon Apr 2 16:42:12 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/065736.html

In article <9aangq$enl$1 at panix2.panix.com>, Aahz Maruch wrote:

>>> I tried your suggestion, and I am close, but not quite.  What
>>> is happening with the number split?
>>
>>Ripping off somebody's apt observation:
>>
>>  A programmer has a problem.  He decides to use a regular
>>  expression.  Now he has two problems.  :)
>
>That's a paraphrase and unattributed.  Here's the correct version, from
>my quotefile:
>
>    'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
>    regular expressions".  Now they have two problems.'  --Jamie Zawinski, 
>    comp.lang.emacs

Thanks.  I figured it was c.l.p where I saw that.

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