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This looks really cool. There have been countless times where I've wished that I could just tack on --csv or similar to awk. I've gotten by pretty well with CSVfix, but this looks much closer to what I've wanted before.
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It really weirds me out that people feel obliged to justify writing things in C now.
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Yeah, I find it a bit odd as well, but I agree with his justifications. I suspect that he did it to preempt all of the HN types who want to know why it's not written in the language du jour. As long as you know how to write clean modern C, it's a pretty good choice for these types of things.