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   On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, 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.   
   >   
      
   Sometimes less is more. It's aesthetics for sure, but for me personally, I   
   do not like massive languages that try to do, and be, everything. For fun   
   I thought about to have a look at Lua, or possibly, go.   
      
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