[ale] Awk as a programming language

[Ed Cashin]

2008/9/20 Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>:
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>> A UNIX guru would probably be impressed to see awk there
>> because even if it doesn't indicate that you were scripting
>> before perl, etc., were around, it does indicate that you appreciate
>> the value of a good old-school tool.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.  You do know that AWK
> pre-dates perl.

Yes, sure.  I can't really think of a better way to say it, though.
If you know awk either you learned it before perl existed or afterwards.
Either way it says something interesting about you as an applicant.

-- 
 Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>