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awk is definitely a programming language, and I've seen people abuse sed in unsettling ways, but yeah, grep sure isn't. lex at least generates C source code but
by shawn_w 2y ago
awk is definitely a programming language, and I've seen people abuse sed in unsettling ways, but yeah, grep sure isn't. lex at least generates C source code but isn't itself a programming language. But they all definitely made regular expressions a normal programming tool well before perl existed.