[univacky]

I learned awk for the purpose of playing Tradewars, running on DOS. Playing Tradewars on the local BBS in the mid-80s, I developed a system where I would spend the first night in a new game just running around and logging the session. Wrote an awk script to generate a map of the places I'd been. Then on successive days I'd work over the mapped areas, and expand into unmapped areas, awking it down to keep expanding the map. Good times.