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Kernighan's thoughts on scripting languages -or- Why He Loves Awk (eecs.harvard.edu)
26 points by keenerd on Sept 29, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



His definition never really mentions that scripting languages usually script (give a convenient interface to) code written in a more efficient but lower-level language. Good presentation, though.

Oddly, for a paper on scripting languages, it never mentions Lua. (It's not clear when the presentation was written.)


PDF.


Nice to learn some of AWK.

Sorry, Brian, I MUCH prefer ObjectRexx.




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