[clue-cert] awk book

[David L. Anselmi]

Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> I don't remember who mentioned the awk book by Addison Wesley, but I saw
> a copy at Softpro.

I work with a guy who tends to write long (n)awk programs.  There are 
some jobs that it is well suited for, and for those it is easier to pick 
up than Perl.  But in most cases I'd say knowing a bit of Perl is better 
than knowing a bit of awk (unless you don't want to load up on the 
infrastructure required to run Perl).

I'd really like a chance to do some serious Python.  ESR says good 
things about it in "The Art of Unix Programming" and Paul Graham too. 
(Not that I know enough to say that they are worth emulating.)

Dave