[ale] Awk as a programming language

[Greg Freemyer]

I agree, I've used Awk to parse large mainframe reports with dozens of
tables included in the overall report.

The awk script kept growing in complexity and was hundreds of lines of
code long at the end.

We had subroutines, local variables, etc.

Definitely a programing language.

Greg

On 9/22/08, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> > Paul Cartwright wrote:
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> > > Ed Cashin wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 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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