I agree especially since I started programming in 1978 and awk had just been created a year earlier. I did not learn of it until the late 80s with gawk, and sed

I agree especially since I started programming in 1978 and awk had just been created a year earlier. I did not learn of it until the late 80s with gawk, and sed much later. I forget when I first touched grep. I do remember using perl quite a bit for text munging in the early 90s. I currently use Powershell a lot more because of its convenience in Windows, and all of the assemblies you can call on, and I still use awk, grep, and others through WSL2. My favorite language, J, is fun for the same tasks [0,1]. [0] jsoftware.com [1] https://dev.to/bakerjd99/jetl-j-extract-transform-and-load-9cm