On 08/01/2012 03:09 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:58:00AM -0400, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote:
Why would you use awk or Perl when you have the best programming language
available: Ruby?
On Aug 1, 2012 8:55 AM, "Martin Kopta" <mar...@kopta.eu> wrote:
On 08/01/2012 02:36 PM, Uriel wrote:
Use awk.
Use Perl.
I hereby declare this mail thread a disaster area of top-posting and
language fanboyism and request immediate dispatch of the vans.
Also, I'm really curious why people use cut when awk exists.
$ du -b /usr/bin/cut /usr/bin/gawk /opt/plan9/bin/awk
38600 /usr/bin/cut
400212 /usr/bin/gawk
105700 /opt/plan9/bin/awk
Speed and simplicity I guess?
Why would I use awk of which I don't remember syntax, when I could often
do with trustworthy cut easily? Seriously, apart from '{print $1}' and
doing sums and stuff, I don't know awk. I don't want to. It is weird
intermezzo between simple cut/sed/.. and almighty perl. Never understood
awk users.
