Sujet : Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 28. Aug 2024, 00:36:29
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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?
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language