Re: Find the longest word in the word list file.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:41 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> > C is a compiled language, which makes it not as convenient
> > as an interpreted language for real-time interactive use.
> > Awk, in its way, becomes an advanced secondary packaging
> > based on C and provides a convenient interface for users as
> > an interpreted (script) language, which is exactly its
> > purpose. Just as python, with which many underlying
> > processing mechanisms are hidden to normal users. Though the
> > similar situations also exist in lisp [...]
>
> One of which would be that Emacs is also written in C :)

Right. All Turing-complete languages are equivalent. But the core is
not how superior the language itself is, but how advanced, good, and
complete the ideas on which it was founded. From this point of view,
LISP is probably the most complete, superlative language, just as the
``Greenspun's tenth rule'' says [1]:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of
Common Lisp.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Best, Hongyi