in reply to A minilanguage with the least effort?

There's a really good book, (free online html or pdf download), on developing a programming language using Perl:

Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl by Bill Hails.

There are also a couple of threads around here somewhere that refers to it, but I couldn't find them just now.

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Re^2: A minilanguage with the least effort?
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Feb 17, 2009 at 15:22 UTC
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Re^2: A minilanguage with the least effort?
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Feb 17, 2009 at 18:04 UTC
    avast claims that the link is malware :(

    A Trojan Horse Was Found
...
File name:    http://billhails.net/Book/
Malware name: JS:Agent-AV [Trj]
Malware type: Trojan Horse
VPS version:  090216-1, 16/02/2009

    [download]
    So take care
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      The link itself? Something on the page pointed to? Something linked to from the page pointed to?

      Google doesn't flag it?

      What's "avast"? An how much faith do you have in it?

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        avast is an anti-virus program (I suspect you already knew that), and it popped up the aforementioned warning when I clicked on the link you gave.

        Do I have faith in it? I guess I do, in that I believe it when it warns me about malware. Then again, I'm very cautious when it comes to anti-virus, and would believe any AV program's warnings. (Except of course for Norton AV. That's almost malware itself).

        Update

        The javascript (http://billhails.net/Book/book.js) looked harmless to me (but I know next to nothing about javascript). I took no chances and retrieved the PDF using a Linux console browser (elinks, FWIW).

        Thanks for the link.

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        It's also picked up by Symantec Antivirus as a downloader and cleaned by deletion.

        May still be a false positive.

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