I always found it interesting that the Awk paradigm is also the basis for IBM's RPG language. Two very different environments coming up with basically the same

I always found it interesting that the Awk paradigm is also the basis for IBM's RPG language. Two very different environments coming up with basically the same elegant solution for the same problem: 1. Run zero or more setup operations. 2. Loop over the lines of a text file and process its columns into an output format. 3. Run zero or more cleanup operations at the end.