[01:35] <purencool> yes can see awks  power but when I should use it has got me baffled
[01:38] <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
[01:41] <purencool> that is a huge gain in performance
[20:27] <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?