[cmgbhm]

What Perl nailed was being useful to write cross platform shell scripts. Agree that it didn’t scale up but you had a chance of delivering n platforms with minimal pain.

awk v gawk doesn’t make me want o to relive those days.

[dkarl]

> awk v gawk doesn’t make me want o to relive those days

That's a fair point. I always explicitly write my scripts to invoke gawk so that I don't accidentally invoke a different version.