From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Funny---I gave up on Perl as soon as I discovered the existence of AWK.   
      
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