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   On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:47:15 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro  schrieb:   
   >>   
   >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:20:47 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Around 1989, I got access to UNIX workstations and also worked in   
   >>> C and various script languages, especially Perl.   
   >>   
   >> What else was there in terms of “scripting” at the time?   
   >   
   > I actually started out with awk, which preceded Perl ...   
      
   Yeah, but Perl does everything awk does, just as concisely, and more.   
      
   So yes, at the time people were pushing awk as some kind of   
   general-purpose high-level language, we already had Perl.   
      
   Tcl might have been another possibility, but I think Perl had less bad   
   syntax. ;)   
      
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