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A comment on The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]. Parent comment
The whole point of programming is power and flexibility. Else there would be no need to move beyond logic gates.
The problem is tools sold for newbies tend to take away too much power to make it easy for people to start, but then keep them, right there, all life.
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The whole point of programming is power and flexibility. Else there would be no need to move beyond logic gates.
The problem is tools sold for newbies tend to take away too much power to make it easy for people to start, but then keep them, right there, all life.