Processing text files line by line is trivial in awk. Maybe it's easy in Python too but at least in awk you don't have to worry about the 2 vs 3 silliness. Plu

Processing text files line by line is trivial in awk. Maybe it's easy in Python too but at least in awk you don't have to worry about the 2 vs 3 silliness. Plus I think semantic indentation is not sane language design. Plus you can pipe it to another command with ease.