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Re:Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Ex... by rhizome on Saturday August 27, 2011 @06:47PM (#2932759)
a sure sign that it's time to reach for a real scripting language

Awk is Turing-complete.

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Re:Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Ex... by glenjamin on Saturday August 27, 2011 @07:19PM (#2932819)
So is brainfuck, and whitespace. This isn't really a useful thing to point out.

For any sort of script thats going to be run many times and may need to be improved or extended, readability is a huge plus.

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Re:Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Ex... by jff on Sunday August 28, 2011 @12:33PM (#2934251)
Awk is incredibly readable in a shell script. It's a proper scripting language that actually looks cleaner than the Bourne shell.
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Re:Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Ex... by rhizome on Sunday August 28, 2011 @04:49PM (#2934929)
BF and whitespace are LOLCODE, and thus not "real" for my purposes.
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Re:Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Ex... by cdcarter on Saturday August 27, 2011 @07:44PM (#2932867)
So is brainfuck...
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