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Juha Autero <Juha.Autero@iki.fi> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> It seems I'm too stupid to implement a simple parser.  I thought it
>> would be good for nnsearch.el to accept a standard query syntax, and
>> to transmogrify these queries into things that the search engines
>> grok.
>
> What is wrong with lisp syntax? It is simple and you already have
> tools to parse and process it. 

I'm afraid it might be more inconvenient to type.  You know, I'm
thinking about a query language for interactive use by the end users.

It's very easy to type (+ 3 4) into the *scratch* buffer or ielm or
eshell, but still, people invoke calculator.el and type 3 + 4 instead.
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