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From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p and how can I know when a write is finished
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> Oh, yea, because s-expressions are so much easier to parse with awk...
> I think we should replace /adm/users to use s-expressions too, and
> /proc/$pid/ns should also be s-expressions!  And next we replace rc
> with a scheme interpreter...

Someone added XML to GNU Awk by the way....  After working with XSLT
for a while I was seriously itching for "xawk".

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D133165

For some of us forced to deal with XML, this is a nice extension and
keeps us out of XSLT processing for a bit longer.

Dave