🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <D7EnF5.ILw@sco.com>, John R MacMillan <john@sco.COM.> wrote:
: Well, I can't claim to speak for all gawk users, but for me the real
: advantage is that I can get useful new features _in a language I
: already know_.  I realize that Perl can do everything I need to, but I
: don't know Perl, and I do know awk, and it's much easier to make use
: of a new feature or two than learn a whole new language.

I understand this, which is why part of the design of Perl is that you 
don't have to learn the whole language to use a subset of it usefully.
There is a subset of Perl corresponding to gawk, which can easily be
discovered through the a2p translator.  The fact is, if you know awk,
you already know a lot of Perl.

Basically, I've tried my best to lower that energy barrier, and to make
it possible to tunnel through.  But there will always be people who get
trapped in local minima.  You don't have to be one of them.

Larry