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Re: To mechanize WWW::Mechanize: a scraping language?

by chromatic (Archbishop)
on Aug 25, 2004 at 19:47 UTC ( [id://385795]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to To mechanize WWW::Mechanize: a scraping language?

The advantage is at least to avoid coding

No, it isn't. People still have to learn the syntax and semantics of a domain-specific language to make this work.

There may be good reasons to make a domain-specific language and there may be good reasons to use a DSL instead of Perl, but don't fool yourself into thinking that using a DSL means that people can avoid programming or that you can easily avoid syntactical and semantic mistakes from non-programmers.

If you do pursue this line of thinking, please consider that XML is a terrible thing to inflict upon humans.

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