[clue-cert] awk book

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 12:14 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 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

I think it was Jef who was interested in the book.  It covers some
things that other awk books don't cover.

I've written a few awk programs, one of which was long.  Python, or even
Perl, would have been better, but they were not installed by default on
SCO Unix and these systems were already in the field, so my choices were
limited.

I did two serious Python programs to check for configuration errors in
our CEM systems.  I liked Python, nice and clean.  Now I want to try
something in Ruby, which is more object oriented and has some
interesting features.

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