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Re:Aho – a Git implementation in Awk by cmgbhm on Saturday February 10, 2024 @02:44PM (#39329527)
What Perl nailed was being useful to write cross platform shell scripts. Agree that it didn’t scale up but you had a chance of delivering n platforms with minimal pain.

awk v gawk doesn’t make me want o to relive those days.

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Re:Aho – a Git implementation in Awk by dkarl on Sunday February 11, 2024 @06:27PM (#39339863)
> awk v gawk doesn’t make me want o to relive those days

That's a fair point. I always explicitly write my scripts to invoke gawk so that I don't accidentally invoke a different version.

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