[tW4r]

But that is exactly what I like about it. I rarely have to use regex, but when I do have to write or change something I always have to spend 15 mins reading (remembering) most of the things about it again, this would help me understand my old code way better.

[mikorym]

This is good point, and without trying to debate anything, regex is something of an art form for some people and I guess as many people are averse to it as there are high school people hating Shakespear.

But to give a bit of substance, you can often use a dictionary type approach in a situation where regex is needed. Example: replacing accented latin with normal (ascii) latin.

I do sometimes pride myself in necromancing skills of resurrection old Perl scripts from perlmonks.com but I suspect it is more of a hobby that out of absolute necessity. I find the memes about Perl/Python and Starwars to be pretty funny and much more entertaining than people actually debating programming languages. [1]

[1] https://www.python.org/doc/humor/#python-vs-perl-according-t...