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Like a sculpture made out of snot,you can applaud the elegance of the sculpture, and the elegance of the construction, but you have to wonder about the building
by qwertyuiop924 11y ago
Like a sculpture made out of snot,you can applaud the elegance of the sculpture, and the elegance of the construction, but you have to wonder about the building material...
- ricksplat 11y agoAh but awk is great! It's parsimony when processing structured text files is hard to beat. Such a pity the next step on from it is perl. Perl is snot certainly.
- qwertyuiop924 11y agoNo, the next step from awk is ruby :-D. Anyways, I was talking about how this thing totally misappropriated awk, not awk itself.
- ricksplat 11y agoIn all seriousness, Ruby is Awk's grandchild borne of a virtuous union between Perl and Python. After looking at the code I'd agree that it's not really idiomatic Awk. But come on, snot? I would've said a humble yet more dignified medium, such as match-sticks.
- qwertyuiop924 11y agoBut I'd say that ideologically, ruby is far closer to awk than perl is. And yeah, matchsticks would have been better. I do actually LIKE awk, and will defend it from anybody who says that it is useless or badly designed. This is your father's awk. An elegant weapon for a more... civilized age. :-)
- david-given 11y agoI so wish I had written this (and I've done some really evil shit in my time). So, so wish. It's awesome.
- executesorder66 11y agoThat's exactly how I felt about cool games made with Flash.
- qwertyuiop924 11y agoOh, don't get me started on flash. AS is alright, but flash is a load of rubbish, and I am so glad that we are almost clear of it.