Timeline for What programming language should a professional mathematician know?
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 20:32 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | AWK is great - it saved me from learning the abomination that is PERL. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 15:14 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Eric Raymond's quote is from a chapter on minilanguages, and is intended to guide designers of new minilanguages. It would seem learning enough AWK to avoid some of its pitfalls (which are cultural, not technical) in designing a new minilanguage is useful. My perspective is that (a subset of) AWK is useful as a starting point with an almost flat learning curve. Having written and seen several standalone applications with AWK, I challenge the part of the quote about applicability. I think you should find a better response. Gerhard "Not Asking For Minilanguage Designers" Paseman, 2018.08.22. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 9:17 | comment | added | hkBst | ``Unfortunately, it turns out to have been designed at a bad spot on the complexity-vs.-power curve. The action language is noncompact, but the pattern-driven framework it sits inside keeps it from being generally applicable — that's the worst of both worlds.'' --Eric Raymond | |
| S Aug 21, 2018 at 17:16 | history | answered | Gerhard Paseman | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Aug 21, 2018 at 17:16 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Gerhard Paseman |