Its probably a familiarity thing, but to me the beauty of tools like awk and sed are that theyre relatively simple, compact, and usually everywhere. The DSL is

Its probably a familiarity thing, but to me the beauty of tools like awk and sed are that theyre relatively simple, compact, and usually everywhere. The DSL is tricky to get past the basics with and I usually reach for another tool at that point anyway. But, whatever language you know already is probably the fastest.