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

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From: Liam Relihan
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <3n8qt8$shf@smurf.noris.de>, urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs) writes:

>Hrmpf. Not a reason to stop maintaining gawk, but one to switch to perl --
>if you're one of those guys who can work best when having a reference card
>nearby. 
>
>NB: (THis is a semi-serious question) Is there anything at all which gawk
>    can do better than Perl5?

Mmmmm...I have not seen such thing as yet. However, for small,
string processing jobs, I tend to prefer awk/nawk/gawk over perl.

I think that awk/nawk/gawk's strength is that it is lightweight.
Perl's strength is that it is very pragmatic --- it can do just about 
anything you would ever want to do in a script and quite a few more besides.

There is room for both languages I think.

Liam
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From: relihanl@ul.ie (Liam Relihan)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/04/25
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