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PERL was originally advertised as a replacement for “awk and sed”
by Anon84 5y ago
PERL was originally advertised as a replacement for “awk and sed”
- dekhn 5y agoyep- and I went straight to perl after learning sed, and ignoring awk. awk looked even weirder than perl (I wasn't a big fan of the pattern matching style). In retrospect, I think awk is a massively underappreciated (for its time and context). I can't say I'd want to work with it regularly (same for perl; in the long run, I prefer variants of C style).
- kamaal 5y agoFirst version of Perl was a replacement for C+awk+sed. These are days when things like GC, hashmaps, file operations etc were hard things on Unix.