Awk of course is a 1st class programming language. I'd include it, assuming you've used it for more than "{print $3}".<br>
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-- CHS<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Geoffrey</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Paul Cartwright wrote:<br> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br> > Hash: SHA1<br> ><br> > Ed Cashin wrote:<br> >><br> >> Yes, sure. I can't really think of a better way to say it, though.<br>
>> If you know awk either you learned it before perl existed or afterwards.<br> >> Either way it says something interesting about you as an applicant.<br> >><br> > back in my AT&T Unix days, I took a few classes in shell scripting, awk<br>
> & sed.. Since I wasn't a real programmer, I lost most of my scripting<br> > know-how, but I sure do appreciate those THAT CAN :)<br> <br> <br>I used to use awk pretty extensively. At one time, I wrote a language<br>
parser for the Progress 4GL, most of which was in awk. For those who<br> are not familiar with it, Progress is a relational DB.<br> <br><br> --<br> <br>Until later, Geoffrey<br> <br> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little<br>
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