Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Example

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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