awk is what got me into web programming around 1994. I was working at a GE subsidiary and all the documentation for the RTOS I was working on was printed in hu

awk is what got me into web programming around 1994. I was working at a GE subsidiary and all the documentation for the RTOS I was working on was printed in huge binders from actively maintained Interleaf documents. Once I found the SGML source documents on the server it only took a few hours to learn enough awk to convert the SGML into a fully interlinked set of HTML documents with a table of contents. Granted SGML to HTML is not that hard but it was fun and useful and much nicer to search as opposed to laying out a bunch of binders on my cube's desk.