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by: Aharon Robbins - Thu, 20 May 2021 18:40 UTC

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by: Kpop 2GM - Mon, 6 Sep 2021 15:58 UTC

On Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 2:41:03 PM UTC-4, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> See:
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> https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language
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> Arnold
> --
> Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com

👍👍👍

Amen. I've been telling others for a while - if they want fancy bells and whistles, use Python, but if they want performance, without compiling to C, then awk is the only way to go. I've only discovered awk circa 2018, but it has been an absolute godsend.

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by: Pankaj Jangid - Tue, 7 Sep 2021 07:15 UTC

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) writes:

> https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language
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I have 20 yrs of programming experience but I am new to this refreshing
world of Awk. Thanks for sharing this article.

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devel / comp.lang.awk / Nice article on awk by Andy Oram

Subject	Author
Nice article on awk by Andy Oram	Aharon Robbins
Re: Nice article on awk by Andy Oram	Kpop 2GM
Re: Nice article on awk by Andy Oram	Pankaj Jangid