Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th May 2008 13:08 UTC, submitted by Ward D
AWK is one of the most common UNIX tools to process text-based data in either files or datastreams. Written by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan, AWK "extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions." ComputerWorld interviewed Alfred Aho.
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2005-06-30
Good reading.
However, what I think of awk is that it is a has-been kept alive by other packages dependant on it. I have yet to hear of new uses of awk. Instead, people use grep when scripting and efficiency is needed, or use perl when needing power.
awk ushered in perl, so should it be considered a stepping stone? I would vote yes, and I sincerely hope that, if such, we should leave it to toil away behind the scenes of history. Developers, simply put, have too many things to juggle with these days, IMHO.