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No one will argue with you that Perl isn't better than awk, if that's the bar you've set for yourself for picking a new language to learn.
by sreque 16y ago
No one will argue with you that Perl isn't better than awk, if that's the bar you've set for yourself for picking a new language to learn.
- zrail 16y agoI use perl every day and awk almost every day. Awk is useful for commands where it forms a small part of an overall pipeline and needs to be somewhat terse, and yet fast. Gawk is actually fairly fast, mawk[1] even more so. [1]: http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html
- devinj 16y agoWell, there are languages I learn to improve my mind, and to improve my craft. As far as the mind goes, perl is nothing new (on the mind to-learn list: Haskell, OCaml, Eiffel, Erlang). Craftwise, it looks very useful.