Question

What was developed by Lary Wall as a replacement for AWK, a text processing language?

Answer 1

I consider awk to be the most useful and underused language in the UNIX ecosystem. I use it daily to analyze, transform, and assemble data, and it always blows my mind that so few people really know how to use it at a decent level. This is an excellent book to give a real idea of what awk is capable of.