> As they say: "Good programmer chooses the most powerful tool for the job, best programmer chooses the least powerful tool for the job". Also see [1].

I don't agree with this. For a network protocol, sure. But not for what Awk does.

Tim Berners Lee's argument (in the Wikipedia page) does not apply to Awk.

> Been universally available (as part of POSIX) and very compliant (language standard is almost unchanged for over 30 years now).

There's tons of incompatible dialects. I think that shows the problem with what you're saying.