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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: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:36:29 -0000 (UTC)
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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?