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>frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data AWK can do far more than that. With netcat you can write an IRC/Gophe

by anthk 3y ago

>frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data AWK can do far more than that. With netcat you can write an IRC/Gopher client in days. There are solitaries written in awk, even tetris and maybe, sokobans.

dTal 3y ago
You underestimate it! https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
- anthk 3y ago
  A pity it's just for gawk; if it worked under POSIX awk you could use awka to give it a good boost.
  - gpvos 3y ago
    Interesting, I'd never heard of awka. Note that frawk does some JITting using LLVM, so it can also be very fast; but it also doesn't support everything that gawk does.