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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl? |
Date: | Sun, 20 Dec 2020 08:58:20 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > 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/ Maybe a more modern contender would be OMeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta Stefan
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