It's crazy how this reappeared on HN only hours after I went searching for awk on Hacker News. Fred Hebert is so well known in the Erlang and Elixir communities

It's crazy how this reappeared on HN only hours after I went searching for awk on Hacker News. Fred Hebert is so well known in the Erlang and Elixir communities. I have just coined this idea the "gateway drug" approach to learning new tools. We should strive to find those introductions that are small enough that someone can digest without a massive upfront time investment to get them past the front door :)