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Mastering Regular ExpressionsBook

by Jeffrey Friedl

Who uses, recommends or left Mastering Regular Expressions, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Steve Yegge
Programmer and essayist, formerly of Amazon, Google and Grab; author of the Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants essays.
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This is a great book for exactly, precisely the reason that all O'Reilly books are great: it covers complex material in a way that's accessible to uncomplex people.

His 'Ten Great Books' post (Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants), introduced as 'ten books that I really enjoyed, and that I'd recommend to anyone who's a computer programmer', limited to books he has finished and rereads. The page carries no publication date; the only date on it is an inline note dated 12/13/2004, so the post is from 2004 or earlier.

2010-04-15·sites.google.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.