I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Use them all the time outside of "programming", like in shell commands or quick one-off hacks. Only use them in code when they're run against predictable input.
That's it. Just validate that they match something before assuming that they're right, and if your predictable input fails to match, log the context.
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Use them all the time outside of "programming", like in shell commands or quick one-off hacks. Only use them in code when they're run against predictable input.
That's it. Just validate that they match something before assuming that they're right, and if your predictable input fails to match, log the context.