what's better awk vs ...

[riggy]

hey guys..thinking of redesigning my math tests page but not sure what programming language would suit this purpose best...wanted to choose between Haskell and Ruby and Java and MetaPost and PHP and now comes in AWK and I'm lost..so my question is what are the benefits of AWK over the other??

[Dennis Handly]

It depends what you're trying to process?

awk can be used for string processing and simple arithmetic.  It only supports doubles.

Other languages (perl) may have packages if you need to process web pages.