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Re: Documentation proposal


Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:

> "Harvey J. Stein" <hjstein@bfr.co.il> writes:
> 
> > I'd probably do it if I felt there was general interest, but I don't
> > think there is...
> 
> you mean we are happy to have a Perl script extract Guile's core docs?
> sacrilege!
> 
> is the speed difference *that* bad?

Factor of 20 at least, IIRC.

I'm a believer in using the right language for the right task;  Scheme
isn't always the right language (I know, that's sacrilege, too!) and
for text munging I prefer Perl.

Greg

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