Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)

Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:52PM (#22304667)

So this is nice, but it needs to be installed. It feels dumb to use awk just to grab fields, but it's everywhere by default with no effort, and it works.

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Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by downerending on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:56PM (#22304690)

This is a real issue. In principle, we can often install whatever, but it takes years in the Linux world before one can assume that any given tool or feature is ubiquitous.

And even then, things can fall apart. Python2 made it, but now it's going away. (Yes, there is a Python3 often present, but neither is a substitute for the other.)

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