On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:51:48 +0200
"Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <k0ga_AT_shike2.com> wrote:
> > It seems to me, even the creators of awk are endorsing gawk over other
> > implementations. The smell is there, maybe posix awk is dead?
>
> I don't think so. Take a look to 'http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/index.html', the place where you can download The One True Awk of Kernighan,
> whose last version is less of two year ago.
Yes, and it says "use at your own risk". Possibly because that update
only fixed compilation problems on current platforms.
> > Gawk on the other hand is under active development.
>
> Maybe you could say it is under continue blow proccess.
Sorry for your cluelessness experience. Read more, talk less.
Kind Regards
- Robert Figura
Received on Fri May 09 2014 - 13:57:32 CEST