On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:40:56PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <Luke ducks away from a language war> :-)
Sure :-) Try and have it both ways why don't you
> > If there was a a2py I'd recommend that.
>
> I can't honestly see a reason to convert an awk script to another
> language, even ici. IMHO awk is a clean and elegant language, and the
Gasp! Awk 'clean and elegant' and yet you shudder at perl!
Silly line length limits. Inconsistency in variable evaluation. Bah.
> maintainability of the program would not increase by translating it!
>
> I think what we're really suffering from is the shell's quoting
> awkwardness. Maybe a better solution would be to put the awk script
> into a #!/bin/awk script file and install it somewhere for use.
Yes, I do suffer from the quoting awkwardness.
But there ain't no way round it.
I'd love to have hashbanged my awk-ward programs, yet they
all out grow their {m,g,n}awkish roots for lack of some
sort of feature, typically a regrettable lack of getopts
style arg parsing, forcing me to go to perl or C to so
that the program can be actually nice to use.
Matt
PS. maybe take it to slug-chat if you're on that list
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