What do you want to contribute?

[Mike Kerner]

it is, but I don't think we should settle for that, either.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's an interesting real(ish) world example:
> http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/
>
> The goal is to find the ten most common words in a text file.
>
> Donald Knuth wrote something in literate code form, in Pascal. The result
> was ten pages of code. In the article, Doug McIlroy wrote it in shell
> script as:
>
> 1  tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |2  tr A-Z a-z |3  sort |4  uniq -c |5  sort -rn
> |6  sed ${1}q
>
> and called out Knuth on his supposedly more clear, ten-page solution.
>
> It turns out six lines of transcript accomplishes the same thing:
>
>    repeat for each word w in replacetext(url ("file:" &
> filePath),"(?i)[^a-z]"," ")
>       add 1 to c[w]
>    end repeat
>    combine c using cr and comma
>    sort lines of c descending numeric by item 2 of each
>    put line 1 to 10 of c
>
> If anyone can do it more elegantly, I'm curious to know how. But in a
> language where we can write our own syntax, this seems likely to be
> possible:
>
> put file filePath with all non-alphabetic characters replaced with space
> into fileString
> for each unique word w in fileString, put w,the count of w & cr after
> countList
> put the first 10 lines of countList sorted numeric descending by item 2
>
> Maybe that's not clearer, but it should be possible.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Monte Goulding <
> > monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In my example I used "each line OF x" rather than "each line IN x". I
> >> often get caught on repeat for each line X IN y when I write OF. Could I
> >> add OF to the repeat syntax so it didn't matter? It seems natural to me
> >> either way. If not then perhaps our syntax should be:
> >>
> >> trim each line in X
> >>
> >
> >
> > The impression I got was that the new language ability would make it
> > fairly simple (or at least possible) to allow for either of or in. I'm
> > right there with you -- I don't actually code that often anymore, but
> > nearly every time I do, I mix up of and in. In my perfect world the
> > prepositions would be interchangeable and likely not significant, so of,
> > in, through, across, within, and maybe others.
> >
> > gc
> >
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