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There’s a lot of old tooling that still has its charm. Last week I was deeply impressed by Awk…
by pmarreck 4y ago
There’s a lot of old tooling that still has its charm. Last week I was deeply impressed by Awk…
- seanc 4y agoHonestly IMHO awk holds up better than TCL. But that's just me. (which is not to say that awk is _better_ than TCL, they're different things. Only to say that for me TCL has been eclipsed by things like Python or Clojure, while awk still has a few places where it shines quite brightly indeed.)
- rikthevik 4y agoYeah, those old tools got a lot of use for good reason. I've been trying to think of perl as a super-(awk|sed|grep) lately, and perl does it so well. I think jq brings a lot of that cool awk mentality forward. I'm consistently impressed by all of the neat things it can do.