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Oh, I think I understand the point here now. I said in my other comment that I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk -- but maybe this
by rspeer 8y ago
Oh, I think I understand the point here now. I said in my other comment that I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk -- but maybe this means their design succeeded.
By designing a terse language, they made people want to do things with it that are short and sweet, preventing it from feature-creeping into a full-featured language where you'd write thousands of lines of spaghetti. Is that the idea?
- chrisfinazzo 8y agoPretty much. Another bwk-ism I recall hearing was “don’t be too clever or too dumb” about whatever you write. Either you won’t understand it later, or you’re just wasting effort.