AWK~plus is the next generation script practice environment. The AWK Language specifications and a main extension of GNU GAWK. Combination of Dynamic and Static typing. Parallel computing that a lock is free, and is thread safe at a language level.
edifact2awk is a small C program that parses an EDIFACT file and converts it to a flat text file which may then be easily parsed by the AWK textprocessing language (including by other script languages like Perl, Python, Visual Basic, etc.).