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- Subject: Re: gawk etc
- From: David Jones <drj@...>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:29:51 +0000
On 8 Feb 2008, at 14:03, steve donovan wrote:
(g)awk is a lovely language. Look at those old books by Jon Bentley
and
you'll see the oldtimers prototyping things in AWK. Was probably the
first scripting language, apart from BASIC and shell ;)
awk is also, apart from shell, the only real programming language
that guaranteed to be installed on a POSIX machine. All the language
compilers like c90 and f77 are optional.
drj
