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...an anonimization sed script with hundreds of transformations on millions of lines that takes hours to run.

Wow! Who decided this would be written in sed? Was the decision made in this century?

I actually wrote a small translation utility in sed for a client in 1999. Anderson claimed the utility couldn't be written, and my boss didn't want to support it. So, write it in sed! Then the Androids had to translate it into C++ by hand.



I personally decided to write the anonymization script in sed. The decision was made in 2020, so yes, this century.




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