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   Richard Kettlewell to Stefan Ram   
   Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming L   
   19 Aug 24 18:24:04   
   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   >>Trying to make that Python script more user-friendly for folks   
   >>who dig awk, then rolling out a sleeker version . . .   
   >   
   > The setup with a class and a bunch of named functions had some perks,   
   > though: The class and function names are like a cheat sheet, spilling   
   > the beans on what the coder was up to. They keep things chill by   
   > breaking up the work, each one zeroing in on just one part of the gig.   
   > Plus, they give you a solid jumping-off point for unit tests.   
      
   Yes, it’s not that it was a bad design as such, but if you’re trying to   
   do some kind of conciseness comparison with Awk, it wasn’t really   
   comparing like with like.   
      
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