AWK is one of the best and simplest languages for a beginner to learn programming.
As if that were not enough, it is lightning fast, small, and powerful. When Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan invented AWK, their intent was to invent the next generation C, without having to allocate memory or deal with pointers or data types, and in that, they were a success. AWK is C on steroids.
