What I mean is, wouldn't it be duplicated work to create your own awk
when there's already a good version out there? Or is there something
wrong with bwk's One True Awk?
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:48:51PM -0200, Alba Pompeo wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I notice awk is in the sbase TODO.
>> Why not just import Kernighan's awk[0]? He created the language after
>> all. And the program isn't legacy code (last update was on 2012). So
>> all looks fine.
>> Want to hear what you think.
>> Ciao
>> [0] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/
>>
>
> I don't want to import an awk implementation.
>
> If you already use sbase on a system and you want awk, you can just
> build Kernighan's awk and use it.
>
> I don't see why we need to import it.
>
Received on Sat Feb 20 2016 - 11:36:31 CET