From: Neil Smithline <emacs-orgmode@neilsmithline.com>
To: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Handling Repeating events from google calendar / repeater interval
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:45:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH4vb=0J3EoohiOkbv1Jo2K662QGb8utNL8gjCspGjfiviq_0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21u79xd01.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm afraid that pure AWK does not provide
> date computation support. That's why I did not implement this.
> So I would definitely vote to extend the repeater syntax with a count.
Before defending my precious AWK, I'll say that I think that repeating
timestamps are a good idea and I'm not trying to talk anyone out of it.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk>>> Although AWK and sed were designed to
support one-liner programs, even the early:
>> Bell Labs users of AWK often wrote well-structured large AWK programs,
and despite
>> its limited intended area of use, AWK is ____Turing-complete____
I wouldn't recommend starting out to write a significant app in AWK, but
adding a feature to an existing script doesn't seem unreasonable. The time
functions are documented at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Time-Functions. The input
may need a bit of string preprocessing before being passed to the time
functions and, as we all know, AWK does a fine job of string manipulation.
While I don't have time to bang on a huge script, if someone gives me the
input and output for the time conversion, I should be able to whip that up
pretty quickly.
Neil
PS: You crazy kids and your lack of respect for antiquated UNIX utilities
;-)
In the interest of full disclosure, the quote above from the WIkipedia is
immediately followed by:
>> The power, terseness, and limits of early AWK programs inspired Larry
Wall to write Perl
So your lack of AWK knowledge seems reasonable as there are many better
utilities.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-31 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 15:00 Handling Repeating events from google calendar / repeater interval Stephen Eglen
2013-07-08 15:55 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2013-07-09 9:08 ` Stephen Eglen
2013-07-31 13:45 ` Neil Smithline [this message]
2013-07-31 19:42 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2013-07-09 6:38 ` Simon Thum
2013-07-09 9:07 ` Stephen Eglen
[not found] ` <85ppuisdax.fsf@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
2013-07-21 10:44 ` Simon Thum
2013-07-23 14:42 ` Stephen Eglen
2013-07-28 9:00 ` Simon Thum
2013-07-30 13:06 ` Stephen Eglen
2013-07-31 12:48 ` Simon Thum
[not found] ` <m27gg6h1z8.fsf@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
2013-07-31 21:18 ` Simon Thum
2013-08-08 20:56 ` Simon Thum
2013-08-09 20:32 ` Simon Thum
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