| blog | oilshell.org 2016-11-13 The shell has been a part of Unix since its first release in 1971, while Awk and Make were additions to Unix, both released in 1977 and developed at Bell Labs. These three tools were conceived as domain-specific languages with distinct roles: Shell is about sequential and parallel composition of processes, including pipelines. Awk is about streaming computation over rows of data. It has regular expressions and associative arrays, which presaged Perl, Python, Rub...