Re: [lojban] Merry Effing Christmas, Lojbanistan

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:02:19AM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Robin Lee Powell
>> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > I just finished babysitting a script to copy index entries from
>> > the old word doc version of the CLL to the new docbook version
>> > that will eventually become our new print version.
>> >
>> > To save people having to manually create about 5100 index
>> > entries, I spent 20+ hours figuring out how to fuzilly match two
>> > documents with totally different markup, and massaging one
>> > document to match the other.
>> >
>> > That's my Christmas present for y'all.
>> >
>> > Be impressed.
>> >
>> > -Robin
>> >
>>
>> I suppose I could have twitted you by saying "well, you could have
>> figured it out in an hour and a half if you used MUMPS",
>
> Assuming we're talking about
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS_%28software%29

  Nah, I'm talking about my usual meaning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
  Just because I can...

>
> I don't see the relevance at all.  If this is isomorphic to solving
> linear equations, the isomorphism is beyond my abilities (nor did
> anyone I asked about the problem in #jbopre or #lojban suggest
> this).
>
>> but I'll just say "Thank you".
>
> :)
>
> -Robin
>
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