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		account42 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Formatting code should be unnecessary We still use grep because its useful. And it's useful precisely because it doesn't depend on syntax so will work on anything text based.

hnlmorg 10 days ago [–]

grep is great. My point isn’t that we shouldn’t use it. My point is that we shouldn’t be held back by it.

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