Yes, but it's not in any way relevant to the topic of the article except both mentioning awk.

The author specifically wanted a functional variant of awk, and they wrote the article because it meant updating their priors on LLMs. Both are interesting topics.

I'd love to hear a Perl perspective on either

> The author specifically wanted a functional variant of awk ... I'd love to hear a Perl perspective

I believe Functional programming in Perl[0] may answer some of the questions related to using FP concepts with Perl.

0 - http://functional-perl.org/