[HN Gopher] Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)
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       Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)
        
       Author : sargstuff
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2023-01-15 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | _Poplar_ is an also-ran (from that time frame). Normally I prefer
       | to concentrate on ideas (of which there are a few in the link
       | below) rather than people ... but in this case, for context, it
       | 's worth noting the authors:
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       | https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/poplar/doc/Mor...
        
       | the-printer wrote:
       | I don't know any programming languages...but I feel like I "get"
       | awk...
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       | Also, this blog post helps with the above. For some reason I like
       | how the author cites technical reviews of the article and email
       | correspondence as references.
        
       | DamonHD wrote:
       | I use awk for lots of things, including running simple nomerical
       | models since its results are totally portable between OSes etc
       | for my purposes.
       | 
       | And I learnt a new thing from this article, even though I have
       | been using awk for decades... Functions. Yep!
        
       | xenophonf wrote:
       | GNU awk and jq are at the heart of the templating engine used by
       | a number of Docker Official Images:
       | 
       | https://github.com/docker-library/bashbrew/blob/master/scrip...
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       | https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/apply...
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       | https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/Docke...
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/dxF0a
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       | http://web.archive.org/web/20230115205059/https://www.fossli...
        
       | pclmulqdq wrote:
       | Awk is an amazingly powerful tool. I remember writing an awk
       | script in an interview once (instead of using Python), and the
       | person giving the interview was amazed at how fast it could be
       | written and how fast ran.
        
       | wombatpm wrote:
       | I wrote an awk script to rip through supposedly ascii text files
       | to deal with CP1252 extended ascii characters that would creep
       | in. Those characters played havoc with the output of our
       | bindery's commercial inkjet print heads. That stuff was fast on
       | ancient equipment
        
       | KRAKRISMOTT wrote:
       | JIT-compiled Awk in Rust
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       | https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk
        
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