hdisk VS awesome-awk

> then people decided perl was bad and moved on from that.

Screw what people think. I found out I like perl. The last thing I wrote is a programmatic partition editor [1] - like how you use sfdisk to zero out the partition, except I wanted to have the MBR and GPT partition table to combine them and make hybrids.

I was fun, and I will use perl again (I may also use awk at one point now that I see how cool it is)

[1] https://github.com/csdvrx/hdisk/

> Bummer you’d been downvoted for that.

Some people have an instinctual dislike of things they've been told it's fashionable to hate. I resent that, because all programming languages are interesting in their own ways.

> It sounds like quite the ambitious project that you’ve nearly got working. Cool!

Oh it's already working, it just needs more polish :)

Check https://github.com/csdvrx/hdisk if you're interested

Actually, I'll try to submit it!

> That is not the sort of thing I’d expect someone to write in Perl, and I’m experiencing an odd mix of “that’s amazing!” and “what on earth were you thinking, my friend?!”

I wanted to do it quickly :)

For decoding weird formats that mix little and big ending, I think perl unpack/unpack is the fastest way.

Also, for computing crc32, I didn't have to bother much :)

I've started with adding one true awk and bioawk implementations.

[1]: https://github.com/freznicek/awesome-awk

awk is awesome and available everywhere, gawk even more powerful that has network capabilities and still mostly available everywhere. Check also /usr/share/awk for some examples as well awesome-awk