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Re: [lojban] Merry Effing Christmas, Lojbanistan



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

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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