Amazon recommends… Arabic.

Here is the last amazon recommendation I’ve got in my email:

“As someone who has purchased or rated Regular Expression Pocket Reference Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) : by Tony Stubblebine or other books in the APIs & Operating Environments > Unicode category, you might like to know that Arabic Alphabet: Arabic alphabet, Abjad numerals, ?i?rab, Arabic diacritics, Arabic numerals, History of the Arabic alphabet, Arabic Unicode, Islamic calligraphy, … Romanization of Arabic, Arabic chat alphabet is now available.”

Everybody knows how complex regular expression can turn, but to associate a regex book with a Arabic Alphabet book is non-sense at least for normal developers, I wonder how many developers are learning regex and arabic at the same time, or maybe it not that crazy if you convert both to unicode.

I would love to know how the amazon recommendation engine brought this cross reference to my email.