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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 23:50:04 -0000 (UTC)
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote at 09:56 this Saturday (GMT):
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
>
>> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Actually it was after I read ``The AWK Programming Language''.
>>
>>> Sometimes less is more. It's aesthetics for sure, but for me
>>> personally, I do not like massive languages that try to do, and be,
>>> everything. For fun I thought about to have a look at Lua, or
>>> possibly, go.
>>
>> Lua is a nice language, but it's really small.
>>
>
> Ah! So maybe Lua would be my next hobby language to learn. =)


I learned some lua to make aseprite scripts, it is pretty neat but it is
a bit frustrating to learn (like how specifically instance functions
MUST be called with :, while static functions are called with .)

On the other hand, aseprite lua has actually worked consistently unlike
krita's python
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