Since threads like these are always filled will praise about the book, I started reading it and was quite excited about it. The book is excellent, but the targ

Since threads like these are always filled will praise about the book, I started reading it and was quite excited about it. The book is excellent, but the target audience it is written for won't read it today. It is written for people that pretty much have never programmed anything before. For someone that is knowledgeable of computing in general, or programming and possibly even already have a vague idea of what AWK is, it becomes very verbose. I get it, it is a cool way to at the learn some history and the context of which it was created. But if the sole goal is to quickly learn AWK I feel that it is quite ineffective and it becomes hard to focus when there is so little relevant content. I lost focus and didn't finish. I would like to pick it up again in a less stressful time. The thing that holds me back is that I'm not sure I will get enough use of it to be able to remember it. It might be a simple language but it is very different from anything that at least I use today, and if I have to relearn it every other time I use it then there isn't much point to it.