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

[Dave Angel]

On 04/02/2015 07:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> 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.
>

There was somewhere in one of the books a list of 'good practice,' 
including an item something like:

Solve the right problem.

There's a world of wisdom in that one alone.

-- 
DaveA