Unlike awk, TAWK is a robust general purpose programming language that can handle any programming task. TAWK is backward compatible with the original awk language and retains the ease of use that made the awk language popular. Normally anyone who has used any other high-level language can learn TAWK in minutes. TAWK provides extensive built-in error checking and diagnostics. It is very difficult to cause a TAWK program to crash.
Variable declarations are optional.
TAWK can determine each variable's type by its use. New TAWK Debugger TAWK's new Full Screen Interactive TAWK Debugger provides you with visual execution of your program. Memory management is built-in and transparent. Includes example code showing how to read dbase III format files. TAWK also includes transcendental functions and a random number generator.