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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 23:36:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:28:21 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

> He described what awk did well, as well as what it didn't, and presented
> a list of things that awk would need to acquire in order to take the
> position of a reasonable alternative to C for systems programming tasks
> on Unix systems.

It was soon obsoleted by Perl, which did everything Awk did, just as 
concisely, and more besides.