I never said Nim was unique | older than awk. While I cannot make you read my cousin comment to understand I meant "new" as clarified-"different" [1] or click

I never said Nim was unique | older than awk. While I cannot make you read my cousin comment to understand I meant "new" as clarified-"different" [1] or click through any links, I can perhaps non-redundantly emphasize that the mentioned approach "works" not just for Nim, but for any language, C & Go (impls refd in mentioned `rp.md`), and Python in another comment in this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295399 (maybe even with `eval` there!) Only, the approach "works" with differing levels of "success" for different use cases / contexts. It is true (whichever) shell language is still there to differ in shell 1-liner cases. That is also true of sed / awk / perl / ... If you don't want to click through on `rp.md`, you could also read Ben Hoyt's article on his Prig if you like: https://benhoyt.com/writings/prig/ https://benhoyt.com/writings/prig/ discussed on HN a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30498735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30498735 It's not actually that different from your `cppawk` that you mention elsethread.. just maybe rotated 27 degrees away in "idea space". ;-) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293475