Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date	2024-09-02 23:50 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote at 09:56 this Saturday (GMT):
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
>
>> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:28:21 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> He described what awk did well, as well as what it didn't, and presented
>>>>>> a list of things that awk would need to acquire in order to take the
>>>>>> position of a reasonable alternative to C for systems programming tasks
>>>>>> on Unix systems.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was soon obsoleted by Perl, which did everything Awk did, just as
>>>>> concisely, and more besides.
>>>>
>>>> Funny---I gave up on Perl as soon as I discovered the existence of AWK.
>>
>> Actually it was after I read ``The AWK Programming Language''.
>>
>>> Sometimes less is more. It's aesthetics for sure, but for me
>>> personally, I do not like massive languages that try to do, and be,
>>> everything. For fun I thought about to have a look at Lua, or
>>> possibly, go.
>>
>> Lua is a nice language, but it's really small.
>>
>
> Ah! So maybe Lua would be my next hobby language to learn. =)


I learned some lua to make aseprite scripts, it is pretty neat but it is
a bit frustrating to learn (like how specifically instance functions
MUST be called with :, while static functions are called with .)

On the other hand, aseprite lua has actually worked consistently unlike
krita's python
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AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-08-18 00:28 +0000
  Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-08-19 08:04 +1000
    Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-19 08:40 +0100
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-19 18:24 +0100
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-19 19:42 +0200
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-08-20 07:43 +1000
  Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-18 23:36 +0000
    Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-27 19:43 -0300
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-08-27 23:50 +0042
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-27 23:36 +0000
        Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-27 21:05 -0300
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-28 16:25 +0200
        Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-08-28 18:37 +0300
        Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-30 18:56 -0300
          Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-31 11:56 +0200
            Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-31 12:28 -0300
              Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-31 22:34 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-09-01 22:52 -0300
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-02 03:36 +0000
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-02 09:45 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-09-02 11:30 -0300
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-02 18:31 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-09-02 17:31 -0300
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-02 23:08 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-09-02 23:15 +0042
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-03 10:09 +0200
            Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-09-02 23:50 +0000
              Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 02:09 +0000
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-09-05 15:10 +0000
              Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-03 10:11 +0200
  Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-08-21 19:18 +0300
    Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 23:59 +0000

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