On 19 Sep 2007, tomelam@... wrote:

> I already felt that the string & structured-data processing that
> Lisp can do so well

Keeping in mind that elisp is more procedural than functional,
Finseth's seminal work [1] on text editing is quite enlightening.

Footnotes:
[1] http://www.finseth.com/craft/

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