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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 18:42:00 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 24 Feb 1996 17:40:27 GMT
From: aaab@acs.ryerson.ca (Al Aab - CNED/W94)
Message-Id: <4gniib$dta@ns2.ryerson.ca>
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <41dvur$hvb@horus.infinet.com>
Subject: Re: Icon as an editing tool
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
Bruce S. Tobin (btobin@infinet.com) wrote:
: 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.
emacs lisp might be the slowest of them all,
awk , i do not know,
sed was such a cryptic (beats APL) pain to someone, that he had to modify
the DOS C source,
to add a trace.
if u know C well, it might b a good idea 2 try it. Look in the huge
accumulated wealth of C libraries & shareware, first.
C is the fastest thing after assembler.
do u know icon or snobol ?