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Comment author: PhilGoetz 31 July 2015 06:30:18PM 3 points [-]

Weirdly, there is no list of falsehoods programmers believe about html (or at least a fast search didn't turn anything up).

A lot of programmers believe they can parse HTML with regular expressions.

Comment author: DanArmak 01 August 2015 01:03:46PM *  1 point [-]

If I were feeling snarky I'd add, "a lot of people believe they are programmers."

(To adapt a quotation, "Anyone can code. That doesn't mean anyone should.")

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