Well, your first job today would be writing that 100 line Python script then doing something 100x more interesting with the events than writing truck loads of regexs?
No, his first job would be a more senior developer writing 100 line Python script instead of hiring an intern to write a truck load of RegExs. After that dev saved time just writing the script over mentoring/explaining/hiring the intern, that dev would then do the more interesting things with the events.
