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One of my favourites is "The AWK Programming Language". Very concisely written, very natural to follow, and very insightful even if you do not care about AWK at
by busfahrer 3y ago
One of my favourites is "The AWK Programming Language". Very concisely written, very natural to follow, and very insightful even if you do not care about AWK at all.
https://awk.dev/ https://awk.dev/
- asa400 3y agoI second this. Awk is one of my favorite programming languages (I would even say, one of my favorite tools) and "The AWK Programming Language" is definitely a worthy book.
- anthk 3y agoYou both will like this gopher hole: gopher://hoi.st It has virtual machines implemented in awk, some generic awk library and a good 'phlog' to read great posts on unix, minimalism and several tools and games. The freecell game it's a easy example.
- wyclif 3y agoThat brings back memories. I remember I had the original AWK book...it came with a 5.25" floppy disc with PolyAwk ("The Toolbox Language") inside.
- anthk 3y agoGNU awk has internet/socket support so you can write a gopher/irc/finger client in few lines.