Re: sed... (Was: a sed question)

In article <20241220184059.820@kylheku.com>,
 Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:

The goal of writing in sed is not to solve the problem, and to
communicate with
future users of the program so that they can adapt it to changing needs; the
goal is to puzzle out what it takes to solve it in Sed, and to show: "Hey,
look, I did this in Sed! Isn't it amazing? (And, by extension, aren't I?)"

Just like APL.
- "can you figure out what this one-line program does?"
- "can you think of a way to do this in fewer characters?"