[HN Gopher] The State of the Awk ___________________________________________________________________ The State of the Awk Author : ftclausen Score : 28 points Date : 2020-11-18 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lwn.net) (TXT) w3m dump (lwn.net) | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-11-18 23:00 UTC)