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Re: Documentation proposal
Greg J. Badros wrote:
>
> Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> > "Harvey J. Stein" <hjstein@bfr.co.il> writes:
> >
> > > I'd probably do it if I felt there was general interest, but I don't
> > > think there is...
> >
> > you mean we are happy to have a Perl script extract Guile's core docs?
> > sacrilege!
> >
> > is the speed difference *that* bad?
>
> Factor of 20 at least, IIRC.
>
> I'm a believer in using the right language for the right task; Scheme
> isn't always the right language (I know, that's sacrilege, too!) and
> for text munging I prefer Perl.
Oh that's fine to hear and yes I do think Perl is nice for text
handling but e.g SCSH has now nice features which might be even more
powerful than perls regexp. I don't know if you have tried scsh V 0.5.2
but if not, it may be worth a look.
Besides it may be useful to port the SRE to Guile.
Regard
Friedrich