Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?

[Hongyi Zhao]

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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