On 02/16/13 13:47, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I found Awk to be quirky, limited, unusable, and something that's halfway > between a domain-specific language and a full-fledged programming language. > Its regex syntax is quirky, its associative arrays cannot be nested, it has > these silly line comprehensions, and knowing it and keeping will just clutter > my mind. Furthermore, I realised that GNU awk does not have any equivalent to > perl's backticks - `...` out of its silly philosophy, which made it useless > for writing another Windows script, and had me look into Lua instead (which > worked nicely).
I guess it's a matter of opinion, so discussing awk's regex, backticks or my examples wouldn't change your mind. We'll leave it at that. > > To conclude: > > AWK is still alive and well, and saying "you should not keep AWK in your > > resident memory" is (IMHO) wrong as a general statement. > > It isn't. > I hope other people won't dismiss it so effortlessly, I think they would find a valuable tool for certain circumstances. Good luck with the talk. The entire workshop looks great, I wish I could attend... -gordon _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
