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Re:Show HN: Prig – like AWK, but uses Go for “scripting” by esrh on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:29PM (#30519570)
I agree. Your comment got me thinking about a lisp dsl for awk-like operations. txr lisp[0] comes with one of these.

[0] https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-000264BC

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Re:Show HN: Prig – like AWK, but uses Go for “scripting” by nerdponx on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:24AM (#30527600)
I would love to buy a TXR book. It seems like such a powerful tool, and I totally lack any context or understanding of how to get started with it!

I got started with Awk and Sed by just reading through the manuals and putting in the effort to understand the various code snippets I saw online. But that was when I was much younger and "fresher" than I am now. Is TXR worth it?

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