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A comment on Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language. Parent comment

Re:Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language by jolmg on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:58PM (#28449132)
I agree, but michaelcampbell's point seemed to be: why learn a language for its ubiquity, when more commonly used languages seem to be just as ubiquitous? So, I focused on how they're not that ubiquitous.
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Re:Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language by selfhoster11 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:55PM (#28449819)
I see what you mean. I guess what I was trying to say is that my position is close to that of michaelcampbell's, and that I wanted to emphasize how little portability is sacrificed by adopting this position on most environments one will ever work in.
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