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  • Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping? (Was: Is awk.info gone?)

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to timm@ieee.org on Mon Mar 22 22:54:23 2021
    In article <1a01e91f-978c-4b00-9f78-4366718cd892n@googlegroups.com>,
    Tim Menzies <timm@ieee.org> wrote:
    gone since 2011... great to see how important it was to people :-)

    in fact, I gave up on that project when I realized that the most of the awk >community did not want to go beyond 5 line scripts

    Awk clearly has an dual identity:
    1) As a "shell helper".
    2) As a full blown programming language.

    Nobody's really sure which it is.

    Because it is both. But people don't like ambiguity.

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    1/20/17: A great day for all those people who are sick of being told
    they don't know how to spell "you're" (or "there").

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  • From igor__@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Sat Apr 10 08:51:32 2021
    On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Kenny McCormack wrote:

    In article <1a01e91f-978c-4b00-9f78-4366718cd892n@googlegroups.com>,
    Tim Menzies <timm@ieee.org> wrote:
    gone since 2011... great to see how important it was to people :-)

    in fact, I gave up on that project when I realized that the most of the awk >>community did not want to go beyond 5 line scripts

    Awk clearly has an dual identity:
    1) As a "shell helper".
    2) As a full blown programming language.

    3) As an extension language for embedded scripting in applications (see
    also: libmawk, libfawk)

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