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		tlrobinson on Oct 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ferret – Declarative web scraping I mean, I can remove control flow constructs from an imperative language and call it declarative, but that wouldn't be very useful. What is the advantage of it being declarative? At least for the example, the equivalent imperative code is about the same length.

bryanrasmussen on Oct 2, 2018 [–]

I don't think there is much advantage in being declarative in this case because whenever I need to scrape stuff I have to do a lot of edge case handling and I want to be in control, but it does seem to be a recurring dream to make some sort of web query language (based on my memories of Old Dr. Dobbs issues)

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