Posts Tagged “awk”
Functional Programming with the Unix Command Line
by enum on June 25, 2009
I was pondering the unix command line the other day while reading sed & awk, and I came to the following revelation: variables aside, the unix command line is a lot like functional programming. Using the command line, you can (…)
Scripting Languages
by enum on June 22, 2009
I just thought I’d share with you Random thoughts on scripting languages by Brian Kernighan. After reading this, I looked up the source code to the unix utility wc. The GNU wc program was written in C, and amounted to (…)