From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Actually it was after I read ``The AWK Programming Language''.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Lua is a nice language, but it's really small.   
      
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