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I learned several languages from writing the same metasearch program in them. Given a query term, execute a web search against several engines, parse the resul
by aristus 16y ago
I learned several languages from writing the same metasearch program in them.
Given a query term, execute a web search against several engines, parse the results into one data structure, deduplicate and display.
This covers a lot of ground including regular expressions, parallelism, text parsing, etc.