Re: [lojban] Merry Effing Christmas, Lojbanistan

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 02:04:45AM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>> 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...
>
> If you honestly think you could have done this in an hour and a half
> in MUMPS, I would be very happy to send you the source files I
> started with, and if you can actually do it, to use you for any and
> all text manipulation I have to do in the future.  I could probably
> manage decently generous contracting rates.
>
> If this was just humour, that's fine too.  :)
>
> -Robin

  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.

  On the other hand, it wasn't humour, but it might have been humor,
since I am a REAL American :-)
             --gejyspa

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