The Guru

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You'll never BELIEVE what Scott Walker said here...:
> bit of time tearing out some of the articles to save.  Maybe someday
> I'll finally master awk but by then it will have been totally superceded
> by perl....did I get that right?

Perl encompasses so much...including grep, awk, and sed, plus a few shell
syntaxes, and a lot of C syntax, with a dash of FORTRAN.

Technically speaking, as a superset, it supercedes awk already.  However,
as Bob Stockler can probably provide benchmarks, certain versions of awk
may be better in terms of raw performance speeds for pure awk-capable
applications.  So it's hard to call awk obsolete if you only need the
functionality of awk without the fat.

mark->
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