> The absense of GC allows to keep the language implementation very simple, thus fast and portable. Also, with predictable memory consumption. To me, this qualifies AWK as perfect embeddable language, although, for some reason this niche is firmly occupied by (GC-equipped) Lua
The absence of a GC is nice for an embedded language, but I don't think that should be the only criteria. Unless you needed an embedded language that processes text one line at a time awk is probably not a good fit.
The absence of a GC is nice for an embedded language, but I don't think that should be the only criteria. Unless you needed an embedded language that processes text one line at a time awk is probably not a good fit.