Programming Unix in the pre-Perl days

• Your choices:

• Bourne shell

• C

• Monsters (sed, lex, etc.)

• awk (Sort of a proto-P-language)

• If you needed complex data structures, you used C

• If you needed low-level system operations, you used C

• Otherwise you used the shell

• Which sucked, but not as much as C

• Okay for reading user input, formatting text, running commands

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