[zetalemur]

For a long time, I thought awk was just an abbreviation for "awkward" (in fact it is named after its inventors, Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan) which seemed fitting as its syntax looks arcane (compared to modern languages) - I really thought the name was some kind of elaborated joke ... :)

However I learned to like it and use it often in CLI one-liners (mostly to cut out or reformat specific columns, probably the most common usage).