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Ah 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 ago
  No, the next step from awk is ruby :-D. Anyways, I was talking about how this thing totally misappropriated awk, not awk itself.
  • ricksplat 11y ago
    In 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 ago
      But 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. :-)