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How does 'using awk' count as a slight? It was the proper add-on to the previous comment kids today don't learn awk. Becuase they have Perl, Ruby, and Python w
by vampirechicken 14y ago
How does 'using awk' count as a slight?
It was the proper add-on to the previous comment kids today don't learn awk. Becuase they have Perl, Ruby, and Python which are supersets of the unix command line tool set. Awk was the king in the years before Perl.
I never really learned to use cut, so I sitll use awk for one-liners the deal with columns in delimited-data text-files.
- jlgreco 14y agoSorry, I read it as a slight because it came right after "uphill both ways in the snow".
- vampirechicken 14y agoWhich usually precedes "Get off my lawn!"
- vampirechicken 14y agoAnyway, if I want to take gratuitous pokes at a language, I usually choose XML; sometimes java.
- vampirechicken 14y agoWhich, of course, I've just been informed is the "preferred" integration language for the project I'm presently working on. Sigh.
- vampirechicken 14y agoWhich usually precedes "Get off my lawn!"