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AWK Alive

AWK
KindProgramming language
Appeared1977
StatusAlive
CreatorAho, Weinberger & Kernighan / Bell Labs
FamilyC
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The pattern–action stream processor named for its authors — the Unix text pipeline's native tongue and the direct ancestor of Perl.

Created by Alfred Aho Brian Kernighan Peter Weinberger
Influenced Perl

Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan's AWK (1977) — the text-processing language named for its authors — made pattern-action the whole program: scan a stream, match, act, done.\n\nIt was the first widely-used 'little language,' the tool Perl later aimed to replace, and still the fastest way to process columnar text.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK