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       # 2024-07-02 - Dinosaur Hunting With AWK
       
       The 80,000 or so recipes in MOAR came from a dump of the web site
       formerly at soar.berkeley.edu.  Most of the recipes were collected
       from the BBS scene going back into the days of yore when dinosaurs
       roamed cyberspace and real programmers wrote code using bits of
       shells and strings.  Some hardware and software DID NOT SUPPORT
       LOWERCASE LETTERS AT ALL.  Consequently, some of the recipes used
       ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.  Some recipes were normal except either the
       ingredients were all uppercase, or the instructions were all
       uppercase.
       
       I PERSONALLY FIND DINOSAUR LANGUAGE DIFFICULT TO READ, SO I RESOLVED
       TO FIND THESE RECIPES AND FIX THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
       
       I wrote a quick awk script to report the percentage of capital
       letters in each recipe file.
       
           $ cat >caps.awk <<_EOF__
           BEGIN {
               FS=""
           }
           {
               for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
                   if (match($i, /[a-z]/)) {
                       lcase[FILENAME]++
                   } else if (match($i, /[A-Z]/)) {
                       ucase[FILENAME]++
                   }
               }
           }
           END {
               for (fn in ucase) {
                   lnum = lcase[fn]
                   unum = ucase[fn]
                   if (unum > 0) {
                      pct = int(100 * unum / lnum)
                      printf "%d\t%s\n", pct, fn
                   }
               }
           }
           __EOF__
       
       Then i ran this script against all recipe files:
       
           $ find moar/ascii -type f | xargs awk -f caps.awk | sort -n >clis
       
       Using trial and error i found that files with more than 30% uppercase
       letters were good candidates to be fixed.  This identified
       659 dinosaurs.  It took some doing, but now these recipes are fixed
       to be more readable on MOAR.
       
 (DIR) gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/recipes/
       
       tags: bencollver,retrocomputing,technical
       
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