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Article #4616Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
From: Heikki Suonsivu
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <niels.798025941@darwin> niels@darwin.life.uiuc.edu (Niels Larsen) writes:
How about posting *widely* the question "what will gawk be able to do
that Perl cannot do now?". That will be interesting for gawk people
certainly, but maybe there are a couple of ideas that would improve
Perl further.
How about changing perl syntax to be more like awk or C? I $$mean @less
$-signs = <and> &other *special \%characters?
We do write a lot of perl. We even have an kludgy ISP accounting system
built in it, not to speak of news expiration system and other stuff like
that. But I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with its syntax, and I do
get shift-finger-cramps after long perl-sessions :-)
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