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


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:25:50 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07)

* Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-20 09:18]:
> 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.

It is very high level programming language easy to understand. My
biggest problem with it is that it does not support Unicode.

That there are user groups, I don't know, I would not need it. It has
enough libraries and is well documented language with books available,
and provides easy graphics support.

It is excellent for learning programming how I see it.



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