It's the aesthetic ("program", "procedure", "begin" and "<>") and the association with proprietary software (Borland) that make Pascal feel "uncool". While Awk

It's the aesthetic ("program", "procedure", "begin" and "<>") and the association with proprietary software (Borland) that make Pascal feel "uncool". While Awk, like C, Is Unix™. Timeless, classic, already there, and cool. This is absolutely just subjective crap, but this is how most of us unix-heads feel :)