From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:28:21 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It was soon obsoleted by Perl, which did everything Awk did, just as   
   concisely, and more besides.   
      
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