Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-20 10:50]:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 2:56 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> >
> > * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-20 09:19]:
> > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:31 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-20 04:43]:
> > > > > werner@X10DAi:~$ time python3 --version >/dev/null
> > > > >
> > > > > real    0m0.086s
> > > > > user    0m0.065s
> > > > > sys    0m0.027s
> > > > > werner@X10DAi:~$ time perl --version >/dev/null
> > > > >
> > > > > real    0m0.003s
> > > > > user    0m0.003s
> > > > > sys    0m0.000s
> > > >
> > > > You did not measure the code, rather startup time to show the version.
> > >
> > > https://perlmaven.com/compare-the-speed-of-perl-and-python-regex
> >
> > I see, yes, it cannot compare well to Python. So for when speed is
> > critical it is better using Perl. Perl is/was one of my favorite
> > languages and I did everything in Perl before learning about Lisp.
> >
> > Lisp offers to me better simpler readability.
> >
> > What I am missing is simple interface and that is solved with Emacs
> > built-in features. And Emacs than provides instability so I cannot
> > really solve huge tasks with it, it crashes, has memory problems,
> > etc.
> 
> Really? If so, why emacs is still the most preferred editor for top
> developers on the world?

What I do is not really editing, it is harvesting data and entering
into database without pause. So it blocks Emacs while doing it.

Most of times Emacs is handling what I want.

But I will most probably delegate some tasks to Erlang language or
Common Lisp.