From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:17:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POJgFjX5xJJ14b+vL_BvD-PZQHgtOd844gzueb6fTeTHHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X97fvo16Z/kG3e7J@protected.rcdrun.com>
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:27 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> * Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [2020-12-19 19:02]:
> > > It's well known that perl's regexp is very powerful for its capability
> > > of text processing. So, which is more powerful, emacs or perl, in this
> > > scenario?
> >
> > Probably Snobol or Icon.
>
> Thank you. Very interesting resource:
> https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
>
At the first glimpse, I just think you're kidding me considering that
I've never heard languages names like them. After some digging with
google, I find the GitHub repos of them:
https://github.com/gtownsend/icon
https://github.com/hardbol/spitbol/
But it seems that both of them are languages with very small user groups.
--
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic Vocational and Technical University
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China
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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 [this message]
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
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