[HN Gopher] Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.fosslife.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.fosslife.org) | 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: | | 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... | | 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... | | https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/apply... | | https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/Docke... | neonate wrote: | https://archive.ph/dxF0a | | 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 | | https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-15 23:00 UTC)