Not sure about GNU, but BSD build systems depend on AWK for building installation media. crunchgen, a compiled C program, has to call AWK. Anyone out there do

Not sure about GNU, but BSD build systems depend on AWK for building installation media. crunchgen, a compiled C program, has to call AWK. Anyone out there do AWK-less builds? Why did I need to learn a little AWK? Because I could work out how crunched binaries were built without knowing some AWK. Best thing about AWK IMO is the C-like syntax. For anyone learning C and AWK concurrently, this kills two birds with one stone.