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> He said, “If you get the awk programming language manual…you’ll read it in about two hours and then you’re done. That’s it. You know all of awk.” It's hyperl
by yesenadam 6y ago
> He said, “If you get the awk programming language manual…you’ll read it in about two hours and then you’re done. That’s it. You know all of awk.”
It's hyperlinked to the Gawk manual, but it seems likely he actually meant A, W & K's The Awk Programming Language (1988), which you could conceivably read in 2 hours, as it's a joy to read. I used it and The C Programming Language as exemplars of great documentation when writing my own.
- elvis70 6y agoIt's one of my favorite technical books, with many examples of the application of the language, including the design of small languages and experimentation with algorithms. It is freely available at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7 https://archive.org/details/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7
- maxioatic 6y agoMuch thanks
- statquontrarian 6y agoThere's also the POSIX standard which is quite readable: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/a...
- elvis70 6y agoBy the way, "Learning Perl" is also a great introductory book to a language.