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by jcelerier 1506 days ago
ah yes, awk's famously narrow focus, covering things such as networking (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/TCP_002fI...) or video games (https://github.com/mikkun/AWKTC). What do you mean your blog isn't served by awk (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/...) as a VRML world (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/...) ?
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>> This is the unix way. Small tools with narrow focus, strung together in pipelines.

> ah yes, awk's famously narrow focus, [...]

"GNU's Not Unix"

And GNU is what most people rush for installing on macOS and Windows which says a lot about the actual needs of people Vs the supposed benefits of Unix purism