The whole Perl era shaped so much of how we think about text processing. It's funny how tools cycle - awk is "new" again because we forgot the middle chapter. S

The whole Perl era shaped so much of how we think about text processing. It's funny how tools cycle - awk is "new" again because we forgot the middle chapter. Same thing is happening with Rust vs C - people rediscovering memory safety like it's a fresh idea.