[jhbadger]

But in a lot of ways awk seems way more modern than Perl (Perl 5 at least). You actually have functions with parameters rather than having a weird @_ array that you need to shift values from. Honestly, if I didn't know otherwise, I'd think awk came after Perl.

[vgy7ujm]

Functions with parameters in a () is already in Perl 5. Search for subroutine signatures.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Signatures