Sujet : Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 19. Aug 2024, 00:36:28
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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.