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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 14:05:57 JST nixCraft 🐧

   It is still a helpful book. Not many computer books can say that. Do you still have old and favorite books that are useful in programming?

   • 𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 14:08:44 JST 𝚝𝚓𝚠

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     @nixCraft I read that book from front to back and was glad that I did. Regex isn't the sort of thing that changes a lot (and one often has to deal with incomplete implementations). It's not like an old book on RoR where it was obsolete 2 years after it was written.

   • Joseph Dickson (josephdickson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 14:54:21 JST Joseph Dickson

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     @nixCraft I have a copy and use it more than all my other reference titles combined.

   • Emo Vulcan (emovulcan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 16:36:23 JST Emo Vulcan

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     @nixCraft sometimes, reading code written in the latest versions of C#, make me instinctively reach out for my old Perl cookbook.

   • JC Mann (jcmann@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 22:58:12 JST JC Mann

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     @nixCraft Agreed!

   • lemgandi (lemgandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 01:27:44 JST lemgandi

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     @nixCraft I have a much-loved copy. Also cf https://alf.nu/RegexGolf for added fun..

     Unlike proprietary OSs, Unix/Linux books never really get old.

   • Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 08:01:45 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.

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     @nixCraft I occasionally let the "Programming Perl" book out to play. Usually when the PerlMonks website is being coy.