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Re: “Make awk rawk”

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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Your post appears to me to be completely misleading! According to the
> examples it's NOT an Awk library at all. It's a new language with new
> syntax (running with Awk just as its vehicle). 

I don’t think that’s a fair description. Rawk is entirely additive; all
existing awk is valid rawk. And any new bits you’d write using the new
syntax are nicely contained in the RAWK {} block.

So it's not so much a
> "package FOR Awk", it's rather "Awk has been used FOR this language".
> The bad thing with that - from an Awk users' perspective - is that to
> use it it seems, to use these "library" features, you'd need to learn
> a new language with an own syntax. For Awk users a library written in
> the Awk language would be much more useful. YMMV.
> 
> Janis
> 
> On 07.08.2025 22:39, Anthony wrote:
>> Someone has done a nice package for awk called rawk that adds some
>> niceties—and a reasonably large “standard library”—to awk. It’s a single
>> (large) awk file and is expected to work in any posix awk (it doesn’t
>> currently work with the plan9/p9p version, but I’m working with him on
>> that).
>> 
>> https://git.sr.ht/~eli_oat/rawk/
>> 
>> A blog post by the author introducing it:
>> 
>> https://eli.li/make-awk-rawk
>> 
> 
> 

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“Make awk rawk” Anthony <a@9srv.net> - 2025-08-07 20:39 +0000
  Re: “Make awk rawk” Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-09 01:49 +0200
    Re: “Make awk rawk” Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-08-09 02:38 +0000
      Re: “Make awk rawk” Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-09 14:39 +0200
        Re: Re: “Make awk rawk” gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-08-09 12:51 +0000
          Re: “Make awk rawk” Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-09 16:22 +0200
    Re: “Make awk rawk” Anthony <a@9srv.net> - 2025-08-09 03:06 +0000
      Re: “Make awk rawk” Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-09 14:59 +0200

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