From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as a translator's tool Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:19:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87tuzpmnuo.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <871rn35lqc.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zh9r45ad.fsf@mbork.pl> <87h7vz2m5g.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <87d06k4rmg.fsf@mbork.pl> <87eeqzmanl.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <877dwmoboq.fsf@mbork.pl> <87bllypckg.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="39017"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 19:20:34 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jhG1C-000A33-Q5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:20:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhG1B-0003GR-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhG0s-0003G6-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:50148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhG0m-0007fi-Sp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CCCE6DFC; Fri, 5 Jun 2020 19:20:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dAXcc5bHYpkB; Fri, 5 Jun 2020 19:19:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (jeden09-dwa27.echostar.pl [213.156.109.227]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B8F0E6D94; Fri, 5 Jun 2020 19:19:59 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87bllypckg.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/05 13:20:06 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123243 Archived-At: On 2020-06-05, at 02:43, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > But I still don't understand why to have virtually > the same code thrice... If you find a good way to refactor it so that it is more DRY, I'd love to see it. That code was written as a PoC quickly and without a lot of thought. >>> Well, that's a task for a parser rather to convert >>> between one format to another... very mechanical >>> and easy. >> >> Have you ever done a real-world translation like >> this...? > > Every time I ever compiled source code for example. > Also browsing the web involves the browser parsing > HTML and CSS. It happens all the time when using > a computer. Obviously, I meant "translation" as in "translation between two natural languages, done by a human being". I'd bet you did not, otherwise you'd never say that it is "mechanical and easy". Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl