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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:05:23 -0300
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:43:28 -0300, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
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>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Funny---I gave up on Perl as soon as I discovered the existence of AWK.
>
> Have you given up motor-cars in favour of horse-drawn transport as well?

I'm sure there are places where motor-cars are totally useless and a
horse is a blessing.