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Honestly 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 tha
by seanc 3y ago
Honestly 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 3y 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.