[mrobot]

Has anyone made an awk replacement? I find awk get's really annoying and ugly really fast, as things become even mildly complicated.

I feel like awk could be so much better.

[TylerE]

For me anything beyond the most trivial one liner I just write in python or whatever.

Maintainability >>>>>>> terseness.

It's not 1976 where every cycle matters.