There is so much about Awk that just seems more modern than Perl, which largely replaced Awk in common usage in the mid 1990s. Maybe the similarity to Javascrip

There is so much about Awk that just seems more modern than Perl, which largely replaced Awk in common usage in the mid 1990s. Maybe the similarity to Javascript (which as others have mentioned isn't coincidental) will encourage younger people to take a look at it.