From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Find the longest word in the word list file.
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 04:29:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ywbz98q.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGP6PO+72rfFKE1T=eievfkwsDR+zWrMEfPjty52iWGNhhOmUw@mail.gmail.com
Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>>> But in Emacs, what is the elisp implementation for the
>>> above task?
>>
>> This is one better suited for the shell IMO.
>
> I don't think so. Whether you start completely from scratch,
> with elisp, there are so many selections for doing such
> a thing. This way can give us a deeper understanding of
> algorithms and how computers work.
Uhm, I said that with respect to solving the particular
problem, not get a deeper understanding of anything, but even
so Emacs/Elisp isn't more from scratch than awk. What makes
you think it is?
Well, maybe if you do it from the scratch buffer...
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-10 23:14 Find the longest word in the word list file Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 1:51 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-11 3:00 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 6:46 ` tomas
2021-08-11 8:58 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 10:03 ` tomas
2021-08-11 9:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-11 10:06 ` tomas
2021-08-11 13:32 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 13:58 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-11 14:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 14:27 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-11 16:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12 2:10 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12 2:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-08-12 3:13 ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-12 3:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-12 3:52 ` Hongyi Zhao
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