| purencool | yes can see awks power but when I should use it has got me baffled | 01:35 |
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| blahdeblah | purencool: awk is an example of a domain-specific language; you can do the same thing in other languages such as perl or python (in fact, there's a conversion script to make awk into perl), but you typically use less code and it works faster if you use awk. | 01:38 |
| blahdeblah | Here's a practical example: http://libertysys.com.au/blog/an-interesting-performance-difference-between-perl-and-awk | 01:38 |
| purencool | that is a huge gain in performance | 01:41 |
| purencool | blahdeblah: I am not sure what you mean by domain specific language. Is awk or gawk a domain specific language because it mainly the data in processes text files so that its domain? It does not use namespacing does it? | 20:27 |
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