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Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???

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From: Jeremy Mathers
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3n8qt8$shf@smurf.noris.de>,
Matthias Urlichs <urlichs@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
...
>NB: (THis is a semi-serious question) Is there anything at all which gawk
>    can do better than Perl5?

One quarter-serious response: No, but then again, you could ask yourself:
"Is there anything at all that perl can do better than assembler?"

To many people, the syntax of Perl resembles that of assembler.
Actually, I'm kidding here, but if you substituted "C" or "Teco" for
"assembler", you'd be on the mark.  Can anyone give a really cogent
reason for using Perl instead of C?

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From: pynq@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/04/30
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