From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Find the longest word in the word list file.
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:13:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POKi-u0whK0bR_Z3QjuO46fuL6C5NHO-kAjysex88vOXgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ywbz98q.fsf@zoho.eu>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:29 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
From the point of view that lisp can be used to develop operating
systems [1], while awk absolutely can't.
> Well, maybe if you do it from the scratch buffer...
OMG. I can't say anything.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machine_Lisp
Best, Hongyi
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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
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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
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