[Tutor] Request review: A DSL for scraping a web page

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 1:17 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote:

>On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
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>> Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e').  I should dig out my *Pearls
>> books, and have a trip down memory lane.  I bet 95% of those are still
>> useful, even if they refer to much earlier versions of language(s).
>
>Yes, the Pearls books should be required reading for all new programmers. The lessons are pretty timeless, it's only the
>languages that change - and most of his examples seem to be
>in a kind of pseudo Pascal dialect rather than real code anyway.
>
>I believe they've been re-released as a single volume now.

Is this the book you are referring to? 
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley/dp/0201657880

Thanks!