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Re:Learn just a little Awk (2010) by rspeer on Saturday June 16, 2018 @11:18AM (#17327717)
Oh, I think I understand the point here now. I said in my other comment that I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk -- but maybe this means their design succeeded.

By designing a terse language, they made people want to do things with it that are short and sweet, preventing it from feature-creeping into a full-featured language where you'd write thousands of lines of spaghetti. Is that the idea?

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Re:Learn just a little Awk (2010) by chrisfinazzo on Sunday June 17, 2018 @11:04AM (#17332653)
Pretty much. Another bwk-ism I recall hearing was “don’t be too clever or too dumb” about whatever you write.

Either you won’t understand it later, or you’re just wasting effort.

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