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Subject: sed... (Was: a sed question)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:36:11 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <20241220184059.820@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
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>
>Sed is one of the so-called "esolangs" which some people use for puzzling.
>For instance, here is a kind of Lisp interpreter written in Sed:
>
>https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp/blob/master/sedlisp.sed
>
>The goal of writing in sed is not to solve the problem, and to communicate with
>future users of the program so that they can adapt it to changing needs; the
>goal is to puzzle out what it takes to solve it in Sed, and to show: "Hey,
>look, I did this in Sed! Isn't it amazing? (And, by extension, aren't I?)"

Exactly.  Well said and well put.

(rest clipped, but should be required reading for everyone)

-- 
He continues to assert that 2 plus 2 equals 4, despite being repeatedly
told otherwise.