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I just see so much stuff being done with SQL databases, PHP, and Perl, when it could all have been so much simpler as basic ASCII flat files with an awk script or two.


Indeed. Back in my bad old days of teaching UNIX training courses in the 80's, I usually got people's jaws to drop when I showed some simple examples of the power of awk. Too bad nothing has changed in the last 25 years. (OK, they would have used something even more horrible than PHP and Perl...)

Cheers!