One thing I also really like about Awk is that you can keep 99% of the language in your head. With Awk it is seldom necessary to even reference the man page. I

One thing I also really like about Awk is that you can keep 99% of the language in your head. With Awk it is seldom necessary to even reference the man page. I don't have to interrupt myself with looking up the syntax or the order of the parameters to a function.