Re: 10 problems with Elisp, part 10

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

>>> Excellent, now have a look at ispell.el - 4 323 lines - or
>>> flyspell.el that is 2 393 lines - you can reduce it a lot,
>>> I take it.
>> 
>> That's not my point.
>> 
>> My point is that the buffer as abstraction is already
>> pretty good.
>
> Indeed. As is looking-at and beginning-of-line, btw.

The buffer is good for editing text and can be used for
various purposes, but for computing as in data-processing in
general, you don't want to retrieve and insert data with
editing commands in a buffer.

But want to have it in specific data structures suited for
whatever purpose one is dealing with.

Faster, safer and much easier to program.

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal