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Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 10:36:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ports tree for Plan 9
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> I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
> awk can be thrown in the trash.

In my wild dreams I wish for a native version of ghostscript (the only
justified use of APE, if you believe in fairness (or fairy tales :-)).

But maybe Go will eventually stimulate development of a sane text
processing suite.  One is allowed to dream, isn't one?  Donald, where
are you when one needs you?

Lucio.