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I don't want to speak for everyone, but that's a big part of it's value proposition: its brevity and ubiquity are very enabling. I don't think we'd be talking a
by kjeetgill 8y ago
I don't want to speak for everyone, but that's a big part of it's value proposition: its brevity and ubiquity are very enabling. I don't think we'd be talking about awk right now if it wasn't useful inline in the shell.
Plenty of people that would rather drop to Perl or Python once awk gets too cumbersome for the command line.
- mmt 8y agoAnd that's also much of what the article is about, though it's arguable if it's trying to get people more deeply interested in the language in general. Still, I'm not certain if the original comment is complaining about the tendency toward one-liners by actually writing less code (something the article alludes to, "only the inner part of the for loop") or merely cramming what would otherwise be readable as a multi-line, well-indented program into a single line.