[Corpora-List] What is best for text processing?

[Eric Atwell]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Grzegorz Chrupa?a wrote:

> The Haskell example is unnecessarily obfuscated. A simpler and clearer
> solution might be:
>
> import Data.List
> main = do
>  text <- getContents
>  putStr (unlines [ word | word <- words text , "ing" `isSuffixOf` word ])
>

My colleague David Duke suggested an even simpler HASKELL solution:

import Data.List
main = return . unlines . filter ("ing" `isSuffixOf`) . words =<<
getContents

Others could probably improve on the Prolog, Java, C etc versions
in terms of number of lines of code ... but I think the more important point 
is the Python version is easier for beginners to pick up and understand,
and also to return to later and still understand.

Eric Atwell, Leeds University



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