v1.0 then:
“Perl is kind of designed to make #awk and #sed semi-obsolete […] The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).” https://github.com/Perl/perl5/releases/tag/perl-1.0
Team douleurs chroniques, en passant à Lidl, j'ai vu qu'ils avaient des tas de coussins, tapis, manchons chauffants à des prix relativement modiques #fibromyalgie #DouleursChroniques #SED
Question for you young whippersnappers, is #YAML at least as much a language as #SED? Does it have some kind of stdin/stdout? looping? Trying to figure out what the next (21st) language to write a gui cloud app calculator in (yes as a matter of fact this DOES mean I did this in SED)
I use my #Linux Jedi light saber (#Vim) to make a #sed script to remove links to the #Mastodon posts I wanna keep. Clock is ticking on everything else. #C42
https://webglossary.info/ is based on a book (“The Web Development Glossary”). Though both book and website use Markdown, I had to write a script that converts everything so that the book can fuel the site. (This works, and automated book–site conversion is pretty cool!)
Working on that script has been weird, some peers suggested to use Node instead, but I—kind of really liked writing it, and enjoyed working quite a bit with #sed!
through all of my sysadmin experience i've been using #sed and avoiding #awk… for some reason. scratch that: for no good reason.
awk is to sed what python is to brainfuck.
the awk programs are a lot more easy to compose and modify, flexible and readable. and there's a brilliant book by the authors — now awailable for a free read from archive.org!
in retrospect, i can't see any tasks that i should have done with sed instead of #bash / awk.
@tripleo I would also be remiss not to mention #Perl's included perltrap manual page, which notes both the strict and warnings pragmas and also has nice lists of things for those coming from other #programming languages and tools like #AWK, #C and #CPlusPlus, #JavaScript, #sed, and #shell.
PS 1Gotta admit that the point about the object systems in R is somewhat spot on
PS 2 #php gets a dishonorable mention
PS3 I will continue to find ways to continue using all 4 of the aforementioned languages, as they are all performant and deliver in complementary ways.
for like more than 30 years, i have kinda skirted writing serious #ShellScripts, getting good with #awk and #sed , and getting really good with #LaTeX because it usually meant a TON of digging through old documentation and piecing things together. Recently, i just started asking #chatgpt things like:
How do I flip through a directory of a bazillion zip files, uncompress each one, put the contents on my NAS, and then move those zip files somewhere else for safekeeping?
I tend to follow the logic of awk better than the one of sed (not being a vi enthusiast), but it is good to see when one might be better than the other: