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It's a competitor to Awk.
by melony 4y ago
It's a competitor to Awk.
- keithnz 4y ago"Tokay is not intended to be a general purpose programming language, nor a replacement for awk."
- NotTheDr01ds 4y agoIronically, on the same page, "Tokay is inspired by awk, but follows its own philosophy and design principles. It might also serve as a general purpose scripting language, but it mainly focuses on processing textual input and work on trees with information extracted from this input." And, "If you like awk and sed, you should take a look into Tokay ...." So it "focuses on processing textual input" (sounds like awk), but it's "not intended ... to be a replacement for awk". It "might serve as a general purpose scripting language", but it's not "intended to be a general purpose programming language." If you like awk, you might should ... Oh, I give up!