"everything should be written in awk" is a rather dubious translation of:
a quick translation to straight awk gives cleaner code, more power, easier conversion to a script, and access to a small library of awk-based utilities I've acumulated.
I addressed those points directly, which you ignored when you blamed me of arguing use cases specific only to me. Suffice to say your complaint was hypocritical given your statement previous to that was very specific to your use case (as I also pointed out in my aforementioned, but ignored, comment)
a quick translation to straight awk gives cleaner code, more power, easier conversion to a script, and access to a small library of awk-based utilities I've acumulated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822697
You're not discussing what I've actually written.
Good day.