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Date: Thu,  9 Feb 2006 06:50:28 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
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I heard an anecdote many years ago about Bill Joy claiming
he was "gonna right a fortran compiler tonight" and nothing
was ever heard of it again.  Is this story scrambled or can
anyone confirm or deny this?

brucee

On 2/9/06, uriel@cat-v.org <uriel@cat-v.org> wrote:
> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/language.pdf
>
> I think sam is a much safer bet than some hideous lib that pretends to
> be capable of parsing (pseudo)HTML.
>
> Years ago some people tried to write a web browser in python...  some
> years later they gave up, all they had produced was a spec for an XML
> format to store bookmarks.  Quoting boyd: "hysterical."
>
> uriel
>
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:50:22PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >> So I thought, but something's not right.  I can't demonstrate more
> >> until I get to work in the morning.
> >
> > Hmm.  I'm going to make an unpopular but pragmatic suggestion: Don't us=
e
> > sed or sam, but instead, use a language with an HTML parser available.
> > There are some jobs for which regular expressions aren't the best tool;
> > I personally think this is one of them.  Here's a script I posted to
> > USENET years ago to extract data from a table.
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/python
> >
> > import sys
> > import htmllib
> > import formatter
> >
> > class MyParser(htmllib.HTMLParser):
> >         def __init__(self, format):
> >                 htmllib.HTMLParser.__init__(self, format)
> >                 self.state =3D 0
> >
> >         def do_tr(self, data):
> >                 if self.state:
> >                         print htmllib.HTMLParser.save_end(self)
> >                         self.state =3D 0
> >
> >         def do_td(self, data):
> >                 if self.state:
> >                         print "%s, " % htmllib.HTMLParser.save_end(self=
),
> >                 self.state =3D 1
> >                 htmllib.HTMLParser.save_bgn(self)
> >
> > parse =3D MyParser(formatter.NullFormatter())
> > for file in sys.argv[1:]:
> >         parse.feed(open(sys.argv[1],"r").read())
> > parse.close()
> >
> > I wonder if this even still works.....
> >
> >       - Dan C.
>
>