using awk with records that have over 100 fields
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Thu Jan 3 08:04:24 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of skwu at spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI):
:Has it ever struck you that perl scripts and JCL code are painfully similar
:precisely because perl is a Swiss army chainsaw?
Nope, not in the least. Perl highly resembles its predecessors: awk, C,
and sed. Pain is a matter of one's own making and perception. You should
compare JCL with its UNIX equivalent, the original shell; you know, the
one where glob was a separate command. Perl is far more analogous to REXX
on modern VM/CMS systems.
Only history will tell for sure, of course.
--tom
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