Sujet : Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
De : nospam (at) *nospam* example.net (D)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 28. Aug 2024, 15:25:49
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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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.
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Funny---I gave up on Perl as soon as I discovered the existence of AWK.
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Sometimes less is more. It's aesthetics for sure, but for me personally, I do not like massive languages that try to do, and be, everything. For fun I thought about to have a look at Lua, or possibly, go.
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language