This was 1994. Why did they pick AWK as an example language? Perl was already fairly mature at that point. I happen to love AWK, but this is absolutely the wro

This was 1994. Why did they pick AWK as an example language? Perl was already fairly mature at that point. I happen to love AWK, but this is absolutely the wrong usecase for it: AWK is a highly domain-specific language, and using it here just makes scripting languages look worse than they are (and in the early 90s, scripting languages weren't that great).