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Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:36:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <valntt$35rt8$5@dont-email.me> References: <slrnvc2fsg.gg1.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> <v9u0hr$2iahp$7@dont-email.me> <87ikvlpoxb.fsf@tudado.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:36:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="52d1e1001450c2fe7f8121ab25cdb228"; logging-data="3338152"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KxmXkS/9h4bq4a1M76GTf" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nd+3d/GrvBUMoQqCyMVu3aLloWE= Bytes: 1728 On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:43:28 -0300, 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. Have you given up motor-cars in favour of horse-drawn transport as well?