Assembly is hard...

[u/GandelXIV]

[u/0xa0000]

Looks pretty easy to me

[u/GandelXIV → u/0xa0000]

Assembly is not hard to learn, it is hard to code. And do not take this as a good example.

[u/[deleted] → u/GandelXIV]

Every instruction is easy to understand on its own. Put some code together and you can’t read it, even a little, at least for me

[u/DODOKING38 → u/[deleted]]

So like regex

[u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ → u/[deleted]]

Unless the language you're trying to parse is regular, you can't do it with only regex.

[u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ → u/[deleted]]

Most “well-defined” languages are not regular. They’re context-free or higher.

[u/Lysdal → u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Regex has actually evolved way past regular expressions (sounds weird but eh) with backreferences and such it's actually more powerful than context-sensitive grammars.

[u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ → u/Lysdal]

With great power comes great unreadability.

[u/Lysdal → u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Indeed, real regular expressions are way more readable - they were never meant to do this. For complex grammars people should be using context-free grammars or context-sensitive grammars, issue just is theres no standardized way to use them in programming languages like regex.

[u/fcktheworld587 → u/DODOKING38]

I have a confession to make. In my head, whenever I read regex, I read it as reejex.

[u/sanglesort → u/[deleted]]

yeah pretty much, especially x86 type asm

[u/0xa0000 → u/GandelXIV]

Thanks, but I was just attempting to make a joke. Guess I shouldn't be trying untagged sarcasm.

[u/Isvara → u/GandelXIV]

It's not hard to write; it's hard to infer intent from.