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glhaynes

For a modern take on this style of thing, see Calca http://calca.io/

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See also: Numi and Soulver.

http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/

https://numi.io/

also the Jupyter Notebook

(Formerly known as the IPython Notebook)

https://ipython.org/notebook.html

I guess it's also worth mentioning Tydlig.

http://tydligapp.com/

I would love to see this example worked out in any of these---including credit for the phone calls. I think they're all trying, but miss the power of awk's simplicity.

Another approach is InstaCalc (https://instacalc.com/).

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