[kwlug-disc] possible presentation ideas

[Steve Izma]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 07:48:56PM -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] possible presentation ideas
> 
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:46 PM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:
> > AWK.  I haven't used this yet.
> 
> Awk is pretty useful, and I use it a lot.

There's a great video from a few years ago of Brian Kernighan
giving a lecture on "successful language design", in which he
spends a good chunk of time explaining why awk (even after about
40 years) is so good for day-to-day one-liners. But it's also an
excellent discussion of the history of the usefulness of certain
programming languages:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU>

	-- Steve

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