[Info-vax] EDT and SET WORD [NO]DELIMITER

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

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<29d569d4-2d58-4bd7-94d9-87f9473e3998 at q27g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Jojimbo <jjgessling at gmail.com> writes: 

> EDT was EOL so many years ago.  Don't you think it would be an
> interesting challenge to accomplish what you want in EVE by writing
> some TPU code?  All the source is there in sys$examples and TPU really
> is a fascinating language.  Consider having native datatypes for
> patterns and buffers.  I suggest giving it a try rather than beating
> the EDT dead horse.

This question often arises when I can't figure out how to do something
in EDT.  Almost always, I find out how to do it in EDT eventually, and
it is much easier than in TPU.  I also don't like TPU for other reasons:
it reads in the whole file at the beginning, special characters aren't
displayed properly, the cursor jumps around in strange ways, it is 
slower.  I've seen life-long TPU users start using EDT because it is 
simply better for many tasks (one example is testing something 
interactively then using EDT in a batch job for large-scale file 
manipulation).