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FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

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212 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 21 Nov 25 10:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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jph00 ◴[21 Nov 25 17:42 UTC] No.46006734[source]▶
There’s already a language that provides all the features of awk plus modern language conveniences, and is available on every system you can think of. It’s Perl.

It even comes with an auto translator for converting awk to Perl: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.4/a2p

It also provides all the features of sed.

The command line flags to learn about to get all these features are: -p -i -n -l -a -e

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1. groby_b ◴[21 Nov 25 18:00 UTC] No.46006936[source]▶
Yes, but it's not in any way relevant to the topic of the article except both mentioning awk.

The author specifically wanted a functional variant of awk, and they wrote the article because it meant updating their priors on LLMs. Both are interesting topics.

I'd love to hear a Perl perspective on either

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2. AdieuToLogic ◴[22 Nov 25 01:28 UTC] No.46011203[source]▶
> The author specifically wanted a functional variant of awk ... I'd love to hear a Perl perspective

I believe Functional programming in Perl[0] may answer some of the questions related to using FP concepts with Perl.

0 - http://functional-perl.org/