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hudibras on April 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vim 8.0 is coming

AWK is from 1977 and I use it almost every day.

nerdponx on April 13, 2016 [–]

I actually love writing programs in AWK. I use Python for that kind of work now, and AWK is relegated to one-liners, but there's something very satisfying about the way programs fit together. It's like playing with Lego.

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