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Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?
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Hongyi Zhao |
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Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl? |
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Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:17:21 +0800 |
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:27 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> * Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [2020-12-19 19:02]:
> > > It's well known that perl's regexp is very powerful for its capability
> > > of text processing. So, which is more powerful, emacs or perl, in this
> > > scenario?
> >
> > Probably Snobol or Icon.
>
> Thank you. Very interesting resource:
> https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
>
At the first glimpse, I just think you're kidding me considering that
I've never heard languages names like them. After some digging with
google, I find the GitHub repos of them:
https://github.com/gtownsend/icon
https://github.com/hardbol/spitbol/
But it seems that both of them are languages with very small user groups.
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic Vocational and Technical University
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, (continued)
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Hongyi Zhao, 2020/12/20
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Jean Louis, 2020/12/20
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Hongyi Zhao, 2020/12/20
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Jean Louis, 2020/12/20
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Hongyi Zhao, 2020/12/19
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Emanuel Berg, 2020/12/19
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Harald Jörg, 2020/12/19
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Jean Louis, 2020/12/19
Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/19
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Jean Louis, 2020/12/20
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/20
- Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, tomas, 2020/12/20
Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?, tomas, 2020/12/20