[GoLUG] Cheat sheets and and another emulator for learning to write a cross-compiler

[Steve Litt]

David Billsbrough said on Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:38:51 +0000

>I would like to see some more 'awk' stuff to use with shell scripting
>in the future meeting.

I had a long time love affair with AWK, but the romance has cooled.
First of all, I agree with Nick Holland that there's a special place in
the devil's playground for people who put 80 character one-liners into
shellscripts or on the command line.

Using AWK as a computer language is excellent. The trouble is, my
experience tells me that as the requirements increase, the difficulty
in writing the AWK program becomes exponentially more difficult, to the
point where I either switch to Python for tasks not requiring huge
performance, or pipelines of greps and seds and trs and cuts and sorts,
plus maybe a final Python tweak.

Also, my recent studies indicate the possibility that Flex might be a
better AWK than AWK.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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