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AWK

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JavaScript

350.7K
266.9K
+ 1
8.1K
Python

239.5K
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+ 1
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Pros of AWK
Pros of JavaScript
Pros of Python
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    • 1.7K
      Can be used on frontend/backend
    • 1.5K
      It's everywhere
    • 1.2K
      Lots of great frameworks
    • 896
      Fast
    • 745
      Light weight
    • 425
      Flexible
    • 392
      You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
    • 286
      Non-blocking i/o
    • 236
      Ubiquitousness
    • 191
      Expressive
    • 55
      Extended functionality to web pages
    • 49
      Relatively easy language
    • 46
      Executed on the client side
    • 30
      Relatively fast to the end user
    • 25
      Pure Javascript
    • 21
      Functional programming
    • 15
      Async
    • 13
      Full-stack
    • 12
      Setup is easy
    • 12
      Its everywhere
    • 12
      Future Language of The Web
    • 11
      JavaScript is the New PHP
    • 11
      Because I love functions
    • 10
      Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
    • 9
      Expansive community
    • 9
      Everyone use it
    • 9
      Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
    • 9
      Easy
    • 8
      Easy to hire developers
    • 8
      No need to use PHP
    • 8
      For the good parts
    • 8
      Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
    • 8
      Powerful
    • 8
      Most Popular Language in the World
    • 7
      Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
    • 7
      It's fun
    • 7
      Nice
    • 7
      Versitile
    • 7
      Hard not to use
    • 7
      Its fun and fast
    • 7
      Agile, packages simple to use
    • 7
      Supports lambdas and closures
    • 7
      Love-hate relationship
    • 7
      Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
    • 7
      Evolution of C
    • 6
      1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
    • 6
      Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
    • 6
      It let's me use Babel & Typescript
    • 6
      Easy to make something
    • 6
      Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
    • 5
      Promise relationship
    • 5
      Stockholm Syndrome
    • 5
      Function expressions are useful for callbacks
    • 5
      Scope manipulation
    • 5
      Everywhere
    • 5
      Client processing
    • 5
      Clojurescript
    • 5
      What to add
    • 4
      Because it is so simple and lightweight
    • 4
      Only Programming language on browser
    • 1
      Test2
    • 1
      Easy to learn
    • 1
      Easy to understand
    • 1
      Not the best
    • 1
      Hard to learn
    • 1
      Subskill #4
    • 1
      Test
    • 0
      Hard 彤
    • 1.2K
      Great libraries
    • 960
      Readable code
    • 845
      Beautiful code
    • 786
      Rapid development
    • 689
      Large community
    • 435
      Open source
    • 392
      Elegant
    • 281
      Great community
    • 272
      Object oriented
    • 219
      Dynamic typing
    • 77
      Great standard library
    • 59
      Very fast
    • 55
      Functional programming
    • 48
      Easy to learn
    • 45
      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
    • 29
      Productivity
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
    • 23
      Simple is better than complex
    • 20
      It's the way I think
    • 19
      Imperative
    • 18
      Free
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
    • 17
      Powerfull language
    • 17
      Machine learning support
    • 16
      Fast and simple
    • 14
      Scripting
    • 12
      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 8
      Import antigravity
    • 7
      Print "life is short, use python"
    • 7
      Python has great libraries for data processing
    • 6
      Although practicality beats purity
    • 6
      Flat is better than nested
    • 6
      Great for tooling
    • 6
      Rapid Prototyping
    • 6
      Readability counts
    • 6
      High Documented language
    • 6
      I love snakes
    • 6
      Fast coding and good for competitions
    • 6
      There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
    • 6
      Now is better than never
    • 5
      Great for analytics
    • 5
      Lists, tuples, dictionaries
    • 4
      Easy to learn and use
    • 4
      Simple and easy to learn
    • 4
      Easy to setup and run smooth
    • 4
      Web scraping
    • 4
      CG industry needs
    • 4
      Socially engaged community
    • 4
      Complex is better than complicated
    • 4
      Multiple Inheritence
    • 4
      Beautiful is better than ugly
    • 4
      Plotting
    • 3
      If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
    • 3
      Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
    • 3
      Pip install everything
    • 3
      List comprehensions
    • 3
      No cruft
    • 3
      Generators
    • 3
      Import this
    • 3
      It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
    • 3
      Many types of collections
    • 3
      If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
    • 2
      Batteries included
    • 2
      Should START with this but not STICK with This
    • 2
      Powerful language for AI
    • 2
      Can understand easily who are new to programming
    • 2
      Flexible and easy
    • 2
      Good for hacking
    • 2
      A-to-Z
    • 2
      Because of Netflix
    • 2
      Only one way to do it
    • 2
      Better outcome
    • 1
      Sexy af
    • 1
      Slow
    • 1
      Securit
    • 0
      Ni
    • 0
      Powerful

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    Cons of AWK
    Cons of JavaScript
    Cons of Python
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      • 22
        A constant moving target, too much churn
      • 20
        Horribly inconsistent
      • 15
        Javascript is the New PHP
      • 9
        No ability to monitor memory utilitization
      • 8
        Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
      • 7
        Thinks strange results are better than errors
      • 6
        Can be ugly
      • 3
        No GitHub
      • 2
        Slow
      • 53
        Still divided between python 2 and python 3
      • 28
        Performance impact
      • 26
        Poor syntax for anonymous functions
      • 22
        GIL
      • 19
        Package management is a mess
      • 14
        Too imperative-oriented
      • 12
        Hard to understand
      • 12
        Dynamic typing
      • 12
        Very slow
      • 8
        Indentations matter a lot
      • 8
        Not everything is expression
      • 7
        Incredibly slow
      • 7
        Explicit self parameter in methods
      • 6
        Requires C functions for dynamic modules
      • 6
        Poor DSL capabilities
      • 6
        No anonymous functions
      • 5
        Fake object-oriented programming
      • 5
        Threading
      • 5
        The "lisp style" whitespaces
      • 5
        Official documentation is unclear.
      • 5
        Hard to obfuscate
      • 5
        Circular import
      • 4
        Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
      • 4
        The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
      • 4
        Not suitable for autocomplete
      • 2
        Meta classes
      • 1
        Training wheels (forced indentation)

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      What is AWK?

      A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports.

      What is JavaScript?

      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

      What is Python?

      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

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