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by joepvd 3428 days ago
> beyond what the tool was intended for

Not sure what that would mean. I think the tool was designed to be a user's programming language. I liken to think that `awk` was the Excel + VBScript of its days.

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VBScript was largely replaced on Windows by Powershell. Awk is still popular for what it's good at.
Fair point. I guess I meant more what I thought it was intended for, i.e. mainly smallish text transforms where the entire program is given on the command line, often as part of a pipeline of several different utilities.