I love awk within certain domains, but the the overlap between where awk is suitable and something big and complex enough to serve as a good example of programm

I love awk within certain domains, but the the overlap between where awk is suitable and something big and complex enough to serve as a good example of programmer productivity is essentially nil. There are some gems in the results section though: > It is interesting to note that the developer originally reported only 101 lines of code, but fully admitted attempting to pack as many statements into each 80-column row as possible! The line count of 250 is based on looking at the actual code in [LBK+94] and estimating a line count based on a more “reasonable” notion of program formatting.