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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.              --       https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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