If one writes a Perl one-liner where AWK will do, that’s avarice. I used to maintain and debug a relatively large and an extremely complex build engine in Perl

If one writes a Perl one-liner where AWK will do, that’s avarice. I used to maintain and debug a relatively large and an extremely complex build engine in Perl for a living for several years, and there was no construct in there that could not have been easily written in AWK.