From lojban+bncCIycn8S8DhDs0oLpBBoEN1U39Q@googlegroups.com Sun Jan 02 08:36:12 2011 Received: from mail-vw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.212.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PZQud-00061S-Fh; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:36:11 -0800 Received: by vws1 with SMTP id 1sf7290866vws.16 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:36:01 -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:mime-version:received:received :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :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-transfer-encoding; bh=Wn65l5Z+KqLA28ez9kNtIhONMs5Nb0dQABjLn/6Nxqs=; b=nE2JPiAxSLnrCT+WPug0xRiM/S22IE0TW085YKfreeiL+X6Y90QIskdK4FL0XHTY1t LeU+6FVKPQxFWUrTmJgCR1FSz6o+LeWzUWy0KCjDEWzGPYz58ocY/YfEavpZ/cRKgha5 Tf6TDG2OAb81qG+22Rwi7A4z82XVdbcQ4dENw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; 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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mturniansky@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.42 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.42; Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so17148090qwj.15 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:35:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.211.206 with SMTP id gp14mr10334055qcb.289.1293986154796; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.213.204 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:35:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110102154022.GK17534@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20110101032935.GW22808@digitalkingdom.org> <20110102061506.GE17534@digitalkingdom.org> <20110102123354.GG17534@digitalkingdom.org> <20110102154022.GK17534@digitalkingdom.org> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:35:54 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Merry Effing Christmas, Lojbanistan From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: mturniansky@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mturniansky@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.42 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mturniansky@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com 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-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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. =A090 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. =A0The 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 ISTM that if you spent 18 hours making hand corrections to a document in order to be able to index it, it would have taken you less time than that to hand index it. But maybe I simply don't understand the task you set out to (and successfully) accomplished. Wouldn't be the first time. Unfortunately, don't really have time today to take a look -- I have to do laundry, drive my kid back to college, return library books, then get ready to go out with my wife for our once-every decade movie night... ---gejyspa --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= ?hl=3Den.