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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:07:36 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 24 Aug 1995 11:02:47 +0200
From: janpeter@mpi.nl (Jan Peter de Ruiter)
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Organization: Max-Panck Institut f|r Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
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Subject: Re: Icon as an editing tool
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In article <41dvur$hvb@horus.infinet.com> btobin@infinet.com (Bruce S. Tobin) writes:
I'm looking for a better way to automate (or semi-automate) some heavy
C++ editing I'm going to have to do soon, making lots of similar changes to
lots of different files. Is this a good use for Icon, or would I be
better off with sed, awk, or emacs lisp? Thanks.
Icon is just fine for this kind of job, but I believe you will save
yourself a lot of trouble and time if you take a look at "gema", a
text processing macro language that is just made for the kind of jobs
you mention. Take a look at it: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/gema/.
Jan
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 19:04 CDT
From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: Icon as an editing tool
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> I'm looking for a better way to automate (or semi-automate) some heavy
C++ editing I'm going to have to do soon, making lots of similar changes to
lots of different files. Is this a good use for Icon, or would I be
better off with sed, awk, or emacs lisp? Thanks.
Icon would be (IMHO) --far-- superior for such a task than any of the other
alternatives you suggested. (Personally, I think that SNOBOL4 might be even
easier still... that's probably what I'd do it in.)
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/