Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by vram22 on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:40PM
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Yes, as per what I read long ago, Larry Wall created Perl as a sort of superset of parts of awk, sed, shell and C (maybe not shell).
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absolutely shell. Perl acts as glue between multiple processes very nicely. $foo = `foo_command`; is great. Opening named pipes. Python is more awkward because it's less like shell.