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> Handling text is still awful in these languages. In contrast to what? Honestly just curious.

• ch4s3 7y ago
  You can do really cool stuff with SNOBOL[1] or TRAC. Really any homoiconic Lang or lisp will do great things with text. But I think Elixir handles text just fine if it’s UTF-8. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
  • justin66 7y ago
    > SNOBOL Oh dear.
    • ch4s3 7y ago
      Yeah, I'm not really serious about that one.
• deleted 7y ago
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