ruby's -n and -p options are venerable equivalents to perl's options which were present in version 1.0 waaay back in 1987 and they were there so it could be tha

ruby's -n and -p options are venerable equivalents to perl's options which were present in version 1.0 waaay back in 1987 and they were there so it could be that drop in replacement for awk ruby inherited a lot of structure and ideas from perl which it inherited from awk and that thought makes me irrationally happy