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It might be neat to introduce relational algebra with awk. At least when I was a teenager this would have made it obvious why people like RDBMSs even though awk
by swiley 6y ago
It might be neat to introduce relational algebra with awk. At least when I was a teenager this would have made it obvious why people like RDBMSs even though awk is definitely better in some situations.
- hedora 6y agoThat’s interesting. Replacing awk, grep, cut and sort with direct implementations of relational algebra has been on my TODO list for about 10 years. (V2 would build relational calculus on that)
- basicneo 6y agoThat sounds like a great idea.
- thomas2718 6y agoSomething like this project? https://www.thomasrebele.org/projects/bashlog/datalog https://www.thomasrebele.org/projects/bashlog/datalog
- tgv 6y agoI don't see how: awk is almost completely, but not entirely, unlike sql. The thing I would foremost like is an easier way to handle multiple file input; then you could join the result any way you want.