[esrh]

I agree. Your comment got me thinking about a lisp dsl for awk-like operations. txr lisp[0] comes with one of these.

[0] https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-000264BC

[nerdponx]

I would love to buy a TXR book. It seems like such a powerful tool, and I totally lack any context or understanding of how to get started with it!

I got started with Awk and Sed by just reading through the manuals and putting in the effort to understand the various code snippets I saw online. But that was when I was much younger and "fresher" than I am now. Is TXR worth it?