From: Richard L. Goerwitz
Subject: string processing
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 03:29:13 +0000
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.032913.20186@midway.uchicago.edu>

I come from a background mostly in Icon, and although I've dabbled
in LISP for some time, I've never really gotten serious about it
until now.  I wonder if anyone might have any opinions on which LISP
dialects (or implementations) are particularly strong on string han-
dling and parsing tools.

-Richard

From: Larry Masinter
Subject: Re: string processing
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 22:13:04 +0000
Message-ID: <MASINTER.91Mar23141304@airplane.parc.xerox.com>

I've programmed in a lot of LISP dialects and implementations, and I'd
have to say that the Lisp in Gnu emacs is the strongest in string
handling. While the only real "parsing" facility is regular-expression
matching, that turns out to be relatively powerful, if a bit arcane.
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