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

Dave Angel davea at davea.name
Thu Apr 2 22:42:56 CEST 2015


On 04/02/2015 03:49 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 1:17 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote:
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>> On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
>>
>>> 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!

That is a new edition of "Programming Pearls", but I can't tell from its 
description if it also includes "More Programming Pearls: Confessions of 
a Coder"

If the two were merged, I don't spot it any place on Amazon.

-- 
DaveA


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