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by simon 5258 days ago
More good points for both sides. This is not making it easier.

I don't need speed as I'm doing offline processing and not worried about lambdas at this point. The unicode is important as I am looking to take Greek and Hebrew text and process it.
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groovy2shoes 5258 days ago
You may be better off with Tcl, then, if you don't want to use a library for Unicode.
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simon 5257 days ago
It's not so much that I don't want to use a library, but more that I would be unable to use much of the core language for the processing and would have to do everything in/with the library and store my text in Unicode-aware holders rather than just strings.

If that's how it ends up, then so be it, but I'll try TCL first and know that I have Lua as a reasonable fall back plan.

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