>perl and python
>alternatives to awk
Not really quite:
awk is much smaller, 'neater' than perl or python (9base awk is ~5000 lines of C, while
perl and python go into the ten-thousands).
They are quite different-you would not write a very long and complex program
with awk, but lots of people do that with perl/python.
Also, awk was/is a single purpose language, for processing data streams.
That's what it's good at.
>python 3 and perl 6
I don't know python 3, but perl 6 looks really cool (although it is way too huge for
my taste).

also, hello!