From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:43:28 -0300, Johanne Fairchild wrote:   
      
   > 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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