Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

On the flip side, you can peep it like this: Python's got a solid set
of statement types you can use for everything, making the code hella
readable. Meanwhile, awk's got its bag of tricks for special cases
like file and string processing. Just compare [1] with [2].
 
 [1]

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Weird, as someone who doesn't use much of Python or AWK, I look at
your examples as clearly demonstrating that the AWK version is much
easier to read. I wonder if the Python version is more complicated
than it needs to be actually.

Yes, you could do a direct translation from the Awk and end up with
something that looked quite similar, apart from the differences in
syntax.

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