[HN Gopher] The State of the Awk
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       The State of the Awk
        
       Author : ftclausen
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2020-11-18 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 0xdeadbeefbabe wrote:
       | > Robbins believes that AWK's lack of namespaces is one of the
       | key reasons it hasn't caught on as a larger-scale programming
       | language and that this feature in gawk 5.0 may help resolve that.
        
       | haunter wrote:
       | The Awk Programming Language has to be my all time favorite
       | programming book https://archive.org/details/pdfy-
       | MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7 Just like the language it's still very relevant
       | today.
        
       | ratsmack wrote:
       | My choice in the awk family is mawk, because it is still the
       | fastest one of them all.
        
       | dbandstra wrote:
       | Previous discussion:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23240800
        
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