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| Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Richard Owlett |
| Re: Languages to extend editors |
| 04 Jun 24 23:19:35 |
From: ldo@nz.invalid On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 06:43:11 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Browsing the first ~30 pages of _Gawk: Effective AWK Programming_ > [ https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ ] suggests it would be an > appropriate tool for a personal project [removing featuritis of a large > set of HTML files]. I wouldn’t bother. Having spent some time learning Perl, I would say Perl does everything Awk/Gawk can do, just as concisely, and it can do more besides. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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