I don't think anyone would seriously advocate using awk for complex projects these days, but the idea of keeping data really close to the OS/shell is a very powerful one.
Take Python, which is supposedly a "scripting" language, but requires relatively painful amounts of boilerplate to actually read from or write to pipes, etc. It doesn't force you to keep everything in Python, but it certainly nudges you that way. Without naming names, certain statically typed languages that are obsessed with safety are even worse in this regard.
Take Python, which is supposedly a "scripting" language, but requires relatively painful amounts of boilerplate to actually read from or write to pipes, etc. It doesn't force you to keep everything in Python, but it certainly nudges you that way. Without naming names, certain statically typed languages that are obsessed with safety are even worse in this regard.