I learned awk in school, and like it. But I like to choose tools which increase programmer-efficiency before machine-efficiency. Perl is just one tool and one e

I learned awk in school, and like it. But I like to choose tools which increase programmer-efficiency before machine-efficiency. Perl is just one tool and one easy syntax to learn. Its regex language is now the standard as well. Only if runtime efficiency turns out to be too slow would I re-examine choice of tools. This is like avoiding premature optimization. (I've never found perl to be too slow in practice, btw.)