Well, it&#x27;s closest semantically to awk, but awk is not syntactically compatible with Perl [1]. That&#x27;s pretty similar to the situation with Rust and C++: semantically compatible but not syntactically compatible.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arl.wustl.edu&#x2F;projects&#x2F;fpx&#x2F;references&#x2F;perl&#x2F;learn&#x2F;ch18_01.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arl.wustl.edu&#x2F;projects&#x2F;fpx&#x2F;references&#x2F;perl&#x2F;learn&#x2F;...</a>