The AWK Programming Language
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The AWK Programming Language
Alfred Aho
3 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2017–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
Best as in best written, along with K&R—Brian Kernighan co-authoring both can't be an accident!—it's just a pleasure to read. I use it as a model when writing documentation myself.
And best as in most useful—I use AWK every day for all kinds of things–web scraping, rearranging and creating data for programs, meta-programming etc. So easy to make whatever tool's needed for a job.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read? 2021 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project? 2017 · 1 recommendation