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Russ McManus <mcmanr@eq.gs.com> writes: > Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes: > > > *choke* I am utterly destroyed... Not my intention at all-- Russ's take is exactly mine. There are some useful constructs that perl provides that guile could support very usefully. Some of the succinctness of the perl script is due to Perl's terse style (e.g., the regular expression substitutions), but a large part of the power of Perl and shell languages is just the ability to chunk at a higher level. Scheme is a great language for abstraction, but not all the abstractions (the chunks) for convenient shell programming or text processing exist. Ross's procedures (and more like them) could fill the whole if they are distributed with guile and consisdered standard guile, and documented. Greg