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by svsucculents 2686 days ago
It's C. Learn C and you know awk. The only awk worth using is G(nu)awk anyway.
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No, in that C doesn't have the pattern-action style of awk:

    /<pattern>/ { <action> }
"For every line which matches <pattern> perform <action> " is the fundamental flow of awk programs. It's procedural but the iteration is hidden; it's almost like each stanza is a callback which gets executed when the pattern fires. I'm kinda surprised no "real language" has adopted this design for an API.