[ale] Awk as a programming language

[Charles Shapiro]

Awk of course is a 1st class programming language. I'd include it, assuming
you've used it for more than "{print $3}".

-- CHS


On 9/21/08, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
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> 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.
> >>
> > 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.
>
>
> --
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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