And, brother, I disagree with your disagreement. A module represents a black box that has been extensively tested. Equally as important, it contains within it extensive error-checking and error-handling.

The latter is crucial to the success of any serious development because a mis-typed character will stymie a developer for hours. Those are wasted hours. Wasted hours are wasted dollars.

A lot of parsing is simple enough for a regex to handle. In fact, regexes are mini-parsers. But, once you start dealing with parsing things that have to balance, that's not simple at all. Much better to leave that kind of work to the experts who are kind enough to give me stuff that works free of charge.

Be Lazy - let other people do the work for you.

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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.