Re: [lojban] Merry Effing Christmas, Lojbanistan

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

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

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