[ale] Awk as a programming language

[Geoffrey]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
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> Ed Cashin wrote:
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>> 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.
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> back in my AT&T Unix days, I took a few classes in shell scripting, awk
> & sed.. Since I wasn't a real programmer, I lost most of my scripting
> know-how, but I sure do appreciate those THAT CAN :)

I used to use awk pretty extensively.  At one time, I wrote a language 
parser for the Progress 4GL, most of which was in awk.  For those who 
are not familiar with it, Progress is a relational DB.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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