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Awk is a useful language that you can learn in one afternoon, after reading the man page and a few examples. And then you can spend your whole life using it for
by coliveira 3y ago
Awk is a useful language that you can learn in one afternoon, after reading the man page and a few examples. And then you can spend your whole life using it for several projects. You cannot do that with perl. That's why awk has a longer shelf life than perl.
- skinkestek 3y ago> And then you can spend your whole life using it for several projects. You cannot do that with perl. That's why awk has a longer shelf life than perl. A Perl developer would of course say you have this completely backwards and even if I haven't programmed Perl much, or even at all for the last decade I would tend to agree.