ActionScript as a teaching language

[Paul King]

On 31 Dec 2005 at 6:17, Chris F.A. Johnson (Chris F.A. Johnson <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>) spaketh these wourdes:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Christopher Browne wrote:
> >
> > Awk is only marginally less "dead" than Latin;
> 
>     Nonsense. It is used everyday by shell scripters. The comp.lang.awk
>     newsgroups is active, and there is also much discussion of awk in
>     comp.unix.shell.
> 

I agree. I know of some people that are also using it presently -- mostly the old-
guard UNIX people though. I would guess that most new UNIXers would be shunted to 
PERL or Python to do things you would do in sed/awk.

Paul King

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