This Thursday, 2013/10/03 in Caldwell Labs 120, Daniel Thau will be presenting the AWK programming language. AWK is an interpreted programming language which excels at text processing and quick-and-dirty one-liners. It is part of the POSIX standard and will thus be found on just about every unix system, including exceedingly minimal ones. AWK has a number of relatively unique aspects that can make it quite enjoyable to use - for its target use, an AWK program is often significantly smaller than almost every other language.
Laptops are encouraged, but not required, and as always, there will be pizza.