From lojban+bncCK30vq5WEOu4gukEGgQPhcWO@googlegroups.com Sun Jan 02 07:40:44 2011 Received: from mail-pv0-f189.google.com ([74.125.83.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PZQ2w-0006NJ-1B; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:44 -0800 Received: by pvh1 with SMTP id 1sf5348571pvh.16 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; bh=qD7oqV5YHB305gc0ZGlpa3M5+y+eTURnI2FTLWTEWek=; b=e8GF0R6i+VI91tWXPAeHiVxCzEfDoQ/4LOTRMO1l7xGMmpWC3Cs6I7qJxwfdlFCoC9 3uQnpfI+ynN1RWBPomokFSipar3Do8dJ0dzociAiOJKLn70NZ7jD7/w3IXXPXsVXUo1P jMA9jmR9nroo3OPUaFdtnJevySzjGaqSQPK8E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; b=lQohdbTOAUVS8poWkMn0wv5dYVf03uOa9k8i95GHTLnaVEMV3uXUZfdNsMgF8zp/MA W/bXY081OUtMvzrso2l5Kr0PBsoVN/NNeQ9iIVcJ6Nx9DCSa4Bw/klOMKtffYeW7vBN8 +a0t+A4WnQt3LD1jiJo5WeOjgiKUA7QCOPAl8= Received: by 10.142.150.28 with SMTP id x28mr900274wfd.7.1293982827725; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:27 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.142.97.18 with SMTP id u18ls187428wfb.2.p; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.109.21 with SMTP id h21mr7004501wfc.11.1293982824770; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.109.21 with SMTP id h21mr7004500wfc.11.1293982824744; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (digitalkingdom.org [173.13.139.234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p40si20734577wfc.6.2011.01.02.07.40.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.234; Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PZQ2h-0006KV-0F for lojban@googlegroups.com; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:40:23 -0800 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 07:40:22 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Merry Effing Christmas, Lojbanistan Message-ID: <20110102154022.GK17534@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20110101032935.GW22808@digitalkingdom.org> <20110102061506.GE17534@digitalkingdom.org> <20110102123354.GG17534@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:34:35AM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote: > Well, obviously, to make a brash statement like that without > having actually SEEN the files involved is just blowing smoke. > But MUMPS' string handling capabilities are extremely powerful, > since they are its only data type. 90 minutes was almost > certainly an exaggeration, but I wouldn't be surprised if it took > me significantly less time than it did you. String handling wasn't the issue at all; this was in Perl, for one thing, which is about as good at string handling as anything, I should think. The *VAST* majority of the time (> 90%) was spent making by-hand changes to the files so they could be matched up properly; the two documents had drifted greatly before I tried to transfer the index from one to the other. The script itself only took me a couple of hours; it's only 300 lines. Feel free to come visit #lojban on IRC if you'd like to see the files. If there was a genuinely faster way to do this, I'd love to learn it. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. 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