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: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:26:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ily53qhe.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGP6POJvNhGu+=smPsWsYZktmB4CVbdqmGm2xOGcft5A5UfzHQ@mail.gmail.com
Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> But lisp - any lisp dialects - is much more obscure than
> python
Don't know the context of this remark, but it is
absolutely true.
> perl regexp and syntax is also known for being difficult
> to understand.
If you don't know either Perl or Python, so you don't have any
emotional attachments to either, go for Python for
several reasons.
The people who are into Perl are actually starting to become
like us in the obscureness sense ...
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-10 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-19 7:43 For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl? Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-19 9:00 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19 12:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-19 12:25 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 0:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-20 1:42 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-20 3:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-20 5:31 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 6:18 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-20 6:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 7:49 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-20 13:42 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 3:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-20 3:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-08 16:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-12-19 14:36 ` Harald Jörg
2020-12-20 4:38 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-19 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 5:23 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 6:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-20 6:25 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 14:47 ` tomas
2020-12-20 9:01 ` tomas
2021-10-08 16:52 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-10-09 1:42 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-10 14:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
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