I have written gawk apps of over 10,000 lines. One was a text formatter, another was a simulator. I also wrote a gawk program that generated a string over 300,

I have written gawk apps of over 10,000 lines. One was a text formatter, another was a simulator. I also wrote a gawk program that generated a string over 300,000,000 characters long (yes - three hundred million). No problems (well, a few, but I handled them). gawk ftw!!!