From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > Have you given up motor-cars in favour of horse-drawn transport as well?   
      
   I'm sure there are places where motor-cars are totally useless and a   
   horse is a blessing.   
      
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