2021-08-05 00:20:45 <dave0       > maw
2021-08-05 00:33:29 <nmz         > arrays are quite useful
2021-08-05 00:33:34 <nmz         > everything awk does a shell should
2021-08-05 00:33:37 <nmz         > by default
2021-08-05 00:33:43 <nmz         > because its constantly working with files
2021-08-05 00:33:51 <nmz         > bash is just incredibly ugly and inconsistent
2021-08-05 00:36:08 <nmz         > https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.html this shows promise but its still yuck
2021-08-05 00:38:41 <acheam      > nmz: you can use "set --" in POSIX sh though
2021-08-05 00:38:49 <acheam      > to get arrays
2021-08-05 00:39:52 <siraben     > nmz: awk is really nice
2021-08-05 00:40:13 <siraben     > when I read through the AWK book it seemed like Python meets UNIX
2021-08-05 00:40:20 <siraben     > they had a lot of string manipulating stuff
2021-08-05 00:41:17 <acheam      > well text processing is kind of its main thing
2021-08-05 00:41:20 <nmz         > the fact you can reimplement uniq with just  'seen[$0]++' is awesome
2021-08-05 00:42:41 <nmz         > of course for the uninitiated it can look like gibberish
2021-08-05 00:42:50 <nmz         > like this thing I wrote a week ago seq 100|awk '$0=(x=($0%3?z:"fizz")($0%5?z:"buzz"))?x:$0'
2021-08-05 00:44:11 <nmz         > I've written some project euler problems in oawk that are about as fast as cython too
2021-08-05 00:44:19 <nmz         > not bad for a 30 year old language
2021-08-05 00:44:34 <nmz         > 40*
2021-08-05 00:45:18 <siraben     > lol initializing x and using it immediately in the same expression I love it
2021-08-05 00:45:38 <siraben     > The brevity comes for free when you have everything implicitly being a variable
2021-08-05 00:46:29 <nmz         > if ?: worked like lua the code would be shorter
2021-08-05 00:48:23 <nmz         > but I don't think short-circuit evaluation existed back then
2021-08-05 02:34:10 <ttmrichter  > ...What?
2021-08-05 02:35:18 <ttmrichter  > ALGOL-68 had short-circuit evaluation available.
2021-08-05 02:35:28 <ttmrichter  > That's the earliest language I know of for certain that had it.
2021-08-05 02:35:35 <ttmrichter  > There may be earlier ones.
2021-08-05 02:48:45 <ttmrichter  > Lisp too, apparently, so yes, short circuit evaluation WAY predates Awk.
2021-08-05 17:36:56 <dave0       > maw
2021-08-05 17:42:55 <f-a         > maw?
2021-08-05 17:44:22 <acheam      > maw.
2021-08-05 19:37:25 <lispmacs[work]> WAM!
2021-08-05 19:39:21 <f-a         > Wam? That is intolerable, I say!