Author here. You're right, "Awk in Haskell" is perhaps a bit misleading. The intention is not to replace Awk for the masses, but mainly to provide an Awk-like t

Author here. You're right, "Awk in Haskell" is perhaps a bit misleading. The intention is not to replace Awk for the masses, but mainly to provide an Awk-like tool for programers who are more familiar with Haskell. Similar to pyline: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-like-sed-like-command-line-tool/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik....