by andrewstuart on 10/18/2023, 10:12:55 PM
by arp242 on 10/18/2023, 10:37:54 PM
The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517525 - Jun 2023 (158 comments)
by bosch_mind on 10/18/2023, 9:54:01 PM
For any folks who appreciate old UNIX things, check out Unix a history and memoir. It’s written by the one and only - Kernighan and he talks about people like Aho. Awesome book
by shric on 10/18/2023, 10:21:07 PM
That page, unless I missed it, doesn't say who worked on the updated edition. Was it the original authors?
by jmfldn on 10/18/2023, 9:47:16 PM
Yes! Going to order my copy soon. Great to see these classic tools evolving and hopefully winning new fans from up to date resources like this.
by zerr on 10/18/2023, 10:22:03 PM
Did the popularity of AWK demise after Perl became ubiquitous?
awk is a weirdly appealing and powerful language - if you do much text processing then it can be a real help.
It's one of those tools that benefits hugely from ChatGPT because every single thing you want to do requires looking thing up and working things out. ChatGPT really complements awk well.