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I was agreeing until this point: > There were no mainstream dynamic programming tools more powerful than awk when NeXT was launched Maybe I'm missing somethin

I was agreeing until this point: > There were no mainstream dynamic programming tools more powerful than awk when NeXT was launched Maybe I'm missing something, but: 1950s: Lisp and Fortran 1972: Prolog 1977: Bourne shell and Icon 1978: C shell 1979: REXX 1980: Smalltalk-80 (on Macs, even!) 1983: Korn shell 1983: C++ 1987: Perl 1.0 1988: Modula-3, and NeXT computer is launched

jandrese 10y ago
Having dug around a bit with Awk that might be a true statement. Awk has an entire ocean of features that mere mortals are completely unaware of hidden behind the 1960s teletype optimized interface. So the statement that there were no tools more powerful than Awk might be true, but only because we don't know if there is a full fledged AI hidden under the layers of impenetrable interface.