<problems@gmail> wrote:
+---------------
| I want to promote the idea that 'we should use a higher level langauge,
| like lisp or scheme'.   But I don't yet have enough fluency to give a good
| example.   A suitable and not too big a task, to serve as a comparison
| against the currently used languages would be:
| 
| rearrange a small text file, so that:
| * all lines of length > 78 are wrapped to len < 75, with breaks at 
|     word-boundries;
| * the "> " strings which start each line are replaced to the beginning
|   of the new shorter lines;
+---------------

As much as I like Lisp, this tiny task simply cries out
for a "one-liner" shell script!

     sed -s 's/^> //' ${1+"$@"} | fmt -75 |  sed -s 's/^/> /'


-Rob

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