November 2018 Summary: After reading The AWK Programming Language I was inspired to write an interpreter for AWK in Go. This article gives an overview of AWK, describes how GoAWK works, how I approached testing, and how I measured and improved its performance. Go to: Overview of AWK | Code walkthrough | Testing | Performance Chinese (zh) translation: 一个用Go编写的AWK解释器 Update: GoAWK now uses a bytecod