Sujet : Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
De : jfairchild (at) *nospam* tudado.org (Johanne Fairchild)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 30. Aug 2024, 22:56:47
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
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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.
Actually it was after I read ``The AWK Programming Language''.
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.
Lua is a nice language, but it's really small.
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language