Re: [Vala] Port of the Porter stemmer to Vala (more detailed description)

[Giulio Paci <giuliopaci gmail com>]

On 17/09/2013 16:27, Serge Hulne wrote:
> Yes, it is implemented in 100% pure Vala !

Yeah, I know it was 100% pure Vala. I was just wondering why. :-)
Did you developed it just for fun or do you see any real benefit having
the stemmer written in Vala?

> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Giulio Paci <giuliopaci gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi Serge,
> >         thank you for sharing your code. May I ask why you implemented it in
> > pure Vala?
> >
> > Just for the sake of completeness, if anybody is interested in this kind
> > of tools for Vala, at
> > https://github.com/nemequ/vala-extra-vapis/blob/master/libstemmer.vapi
> > there are also the Vala bindings for the snowball stemmer library
> > (http://snowball.tartarus.org/).
> >
> > Bests,
> >         Giulio.
> >
> > On 17/09/2013 11:33, Serge Hulne wrote:
> > > A more detailed description:
> > >
> > > http://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/
> > >
> > > http://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/def.txt
> > >
> > >
> > > Serge Hulne.