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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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