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From: Rick O'shay <warnerm@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:12:00 +0000
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In article <200106111013.MAA14426@boris.cd.chalmers.se>, "Laura Creighton"
<lac@cd.chalmers.se> wrote:

> it is very cool, but these days I do all my old awk things in python.
> Laura

On linuces, you'll go back once you start using gawk-3.1.0. It has very
highly abstracted Plan-9zy syntactical model for socket programming. Once
gawk incorporates a multithreading model, I won't have to make any more
excuses for not wanting to know Perl.

-m