Re: awk tutorial confusion

As a complete novice, I would wish you experts to consider the moral
of this story as: "know your audience".

I've never done programming before; my primary aim is not learning
programming per se, but learning what is necessary to perform certain
tasks which is a small part of my projects.

In terms of teaching a "versatile approach", whilst this may be
beneficial to the reader already proficient in computer programming,
it is not appropriate to the novice typically most attracted to a
'tutorial' in the first instance.

On numerous occasions I am reading instructions "to continue reading"
and "you have to read the next few paragraphs". This contradicts the
essence of a tutorial for a novice such as I: by definition I should
be able read and comprehend a tutorial from beginning to end in a
logical, sequential manner.

So now I'm reading the gawk guide, which I consider a reference
document and as such expect to "jump" from section to section.