Are you familiar with the idea of implementing common problems for the sake of pedagogy? For example, someone who might want to demonstrate how a particular programming language can be used might start a blog, and in that blog said person might post articles demonstrating how you could attack a particular problem in that language.
Your criticism of this post comes across as tone-deaf. You might as well have written the editors of Beautiful Code to lecture them about how the chapter on quicksort is horribly misguided and that everything a good software craftsman should ever care to know on the subject can be found at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.ht...)
Honestly, I meant no harm. I saw that we were talking about web scraping in other languages like PHP and Python, and I wanted to add on to the idea above that Factor doesn't really provide additional value than any other implementation of the job in another language would. They equally share the same overhead associated with web scraping activity that must lay on the shoulder of the developer. All in all, I wanted to highlight that one shouldn't put so much effort into creating web scrapers, and suggested a different tool that is specialized for the same job mentioned in the article.
Your criticism of this post comes across as tone-deaf. You might as well have written the editors of Beautiful Code to lecture them about how the chapter on quicksort is horribly misguided and that everything a good software craftsman should ever care to know on the subject can be found at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.ht...)