using awk with records that have over 100 fields

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of skwu at spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI):
:Has it ever struck you that perl scripts and JCL code are painfully similar
:precisely because perl is a Swiss army chainsaw?

Nope, not in the least.  Perl highly resembles its predecessors: awk, C,
and sed.  Pain is a matter of one's own making and perception.  You should
compare JCL with its UNIX equivalent, the original shell; you know, the
one where glob was a separate command.  Perl is far more analogous to REXX
on modern VM/CMS systems.

Only history will tell for sure, of course.

--tom
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