I want to say that Perl, and Ruby, and even Python are superior tools .... except that awk is also my default go-to for pipiing into to munge output data, so ye

I want to say that Perl, and Ruby, and even Python are superior tools .... except that awk is also my default go-to for pipiing into to munge output data, so yes it's clearly still hitting the sweet spot for many tasks.