[tharne]

> In fact, the name of the original book about awk is The Awk Programming Language.

Great book. I read it after it was so enthusiastically endorsed here on HN. A lot of people said it was worth reading just to take in the excellent technical writing style of Brian Kernighan.

I would offer a strong second to that.

[fuzztester]

Cool. Yes, his style is good in his other books too, like K&R (C), K&P (Unix), and GOPL (Go), and The Practice of Programming.