I tend to say that sed could be considered as a domain-specific scripting language usable to edit text. awk is a more generic language - to my shame I used it o

I tend to say that sed could be considered as a domain-specific scripting language usable to edit text. awk is a more generic language - to my shame I used it only for parsing and translating text - even without a REPL you can 'test' quite a lot of constructs by providing the expressions to awk as an argument. I concede that REPLs is not a must for a scripting language, but it will definitely make it more enjoyable ;)