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yes, maybe esoteric today, but not when only tool available (~late 80's) across multiple platforms mac, unix flavors, vax, spery rand, burrows, wang, sun, alpha
by sargstuff 4y ago
yes, maybe esoteric today, but not when only tool available (~late 80's) across multiple platforms mac, unix flavors, vax, spery rand, burrows, wang, sun, alpha and x86.
- sargstuff 4y agotend to forget, awk isn't the typical choice for programs in 20k-100k lines range.
- froh 4y agoyup. I wonder "what if" awk had added records (dotted r.attrib notation) and namespaces. I've created sizeable awk scripts back in the day, and I missed the former dearly and the latter somewhat.
- sargstuff 4y agoNah, (humor observation), using system() is the only one true way to do namespaces. The way gawk handles functional parameters can simulate records (dotted r.attrib notation) Gawk @ additon [1] permits namespaces (include,load) and other fun syntax/sematic jit enforced separation. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Index.html https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Index.htm...