I'd argue that changes and improvements count almost as much as start date. Today, in 2020, "Python" mostly means "python3", and practically means "python>3.5 or so", which is not super recent but is a lot younger than 1991. Has AWK changed significantly in the last 30 years, or does current awk basically look the same as it did in System V?
> Has AWK changed significantly in the last 30 years
Actually it did, exactly the dialect used by the author of OP, Gawk got some very new and, in the context of awk language dialects, advanced features recently.
