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I will bet you $1000 that time spent learning Awk will lead to better results much faster than time spent polluting your privileged user directories with Python
by pmarreck 3y ago
I will bet you $1000 that time spent learning Awk will lead to better results much faster than time spent polluting your privileged user directories with Python's excuse for "dependency management"
- paleface 3y agoI agree entirely! For many python users, it’s the only language they know. Often, they see programming in python, as part of their “identity” - so they’re overly invested in it, to the detriment of other wonderful languages, like awk. I used to code perl myself, back in the day - but I came to appreciate the simplicity of awk, and now it’s one of my favourites. I no longer code perl, as a consequence, as I believe awk to be far more elegant! I wouldn’t have done so, if I was overly invested in being a “perl programmer”.