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That's funny, and totally not what awk was designed for, but it does it anyway!

A couple decades ago I remember somebody using awk in programming competitions, as a stunt, and doing surprisingly well. For tasks involving text processing it has a huge advantage, and it ends up doing ok with other stuff.

Early 2000s, writing your own client to join freenode was a programmer's rite. Sad to see the network implode. And no, I won't use libera or whatever.

> it's made with gawk.

gawk is always best when served live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXHuygyyulE&t=53s