awk is a weirdly appealing and powerful language - if you do much text processing then it can be a real help.<p>It's one of those tools that benefits hugely from ChatGPT because every single thing you want to do requires looking thing up and working things out. ChatGPT really complements awk well.
For any folks who appreciate old UNIX things, check out Unix a history and memoir. It’s written by the one and only - Kernighan and he talks about people like Aho. Awesome book