I had great fun writing the traditional "Cloak of Darkness" exercise for Interactive Fiction in pure AWK: http://zork.net/~nick/loyhargil/if/if.awk http://zork

I had great fun writing the traditional "Cloak of Darkness" exercise for Interactive Fiction in pure AWK: http://zork.net/~nick/loyhargil/if/if.awk http://zork.net/~nick/loyhargil/if/if.awk For comparison, here are all the published examples of this exercise in a variety of systems: http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/ http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/ I won't say it's the best tool for this job, but I feel that the awkishness provides a certain elegance to some aspects.