Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 19, 2006 05:54 PM
AWK is NOT designed for complex programs with thousands and thousands of lines and its handling of output files is clumsy. However there are a lots of tasks who require iterating over the lines of a file and only a few dozens or hundreds lines where the many things awk does automatically (like reading the next line and detecting the end of file) make easier and faster to write Awk than Python.
Also I lost a lot of my initial enthousaism forb Python when it got a case of memory diarrhea with Python 2. Consider that the relatively simple Redhat installer (when you compare it with Suse's or Mandrake's) will not or barely work on 128 Megs even in text mode and it is the slowest Linux installer on the market.
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Re:AWK is old: use Python today!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 19, 2006 05:54 PMAlso I lost a lot of my initial enthousaism forb Python when it got a case of memory diarrhea with Python 2. Consider that the relatively simple Redhat installer (when you compare it with Suse's or Mandrake's) will not or barely work on 128 Megs even in text mode and it is the slowest Linux installer on the market.
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