Sujet : Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
De : jfairchild (at) *nospam* tudado.org (Johanne Fairchild)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 28. Aug 2024, 01:05:23
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:43:28 -0300, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:28:21 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
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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.
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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.
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Have you given up motor-cars in favour of horse-drawn transport as well?
I'm sure there are places where motor-cars are totally useless and a
horse is a blessing.
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language