On 24Mar2021 12:00, Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net> wrote: >But I wonder how much languages like AWK are still used to make new >programs >as compared to a time they were really useful.
You mentioned in an adjacent post that you've not used AWK since 2000. By contrast, I still use it regularly. It's great for proof of concept at the command line or in small scripts, and as the innards of quite useful scripts. I've a trite "colsum" script which does nothing but generate and run a little awk programme to sum a column, and routinely type "blah .... | colsum 2" or the like to get a tally. I totally agree that once you're processing a lot of data from places or where a shell script is making long pipelines or many command invocations, if that's a performance issue it is time to recode. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
