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what would you add to awk so that it would make a big difference?
by MichaelMoser123 6y ago
what would you add to awk so that it would make a big difference?
- yiyus 6y agoI would not call awk an array language. Arrays are essential in awk, but it lacks array operations. For example, in an array language, you add two arrays a and b, element by element, with a+b, while in awk you need a loop. Moreover, you do not have direct map and reduce operations, and again you need loops. As a fan of both awk and array languages, I think that an nsl-awk would be a really interesting project.