I was just thinking about something like this. The beauty of Lisp stems from the fact that you can take it as-is (as a general-purpose language) and add constru

I was just thinking about something like this. The beauty of Lisp stems from the fact that you can take it as-is (as a general-purpose language) and add constructs that allow for such domain-specific code. The converse, making awk more general, would be a much more difficult task.