Re: [9fans] Gawk in 9front-ports

[Hugo Rivera <uair00@gmail.com>]

Arnold,
I am not sure who I am addressing either :-) Just wanted to know where
this gawk port was heading.
The thing is that I use a slightly modified version of Plan 9's awk.
In this version, I added all the math functions from C and replaced
the random number generator by the Mersenne twister.
As a comment, from my experience gawk is generally faster than Plan
9's awk, but I believe the latter is more reliable (it crashes less
often than gawk).
Please, let me (us) know about the future of awk in 9front.

2015-07-09 4:49 GMT-04:00  <arnold@skeeve.com>:
> Hi Hugo. I'm not sure who you're addressing. Jens did the port.
> I maintain gawk.
>
> Removing bloat unfortunately isn't going to happen in the mainline
> code base since there are backward compatibility issues.
>
> However, I'm happy to incorporate portability changes to make porting
> to Plan 9 easier, if they're reasonable.
>
> HTH,
>
> Arnold
>
> Hugo Rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me understand. Are you going to modify the current gawk version
>> according to your needs (perhaps removing some of the bloat you
>> mention)? or are you going to port gawk as it is?
>>
>> 2015-07-08 2:22 GMT-04:00  <arnold@skeeve.com>:
>> > Hugo Rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Why do you want gawk on plan9?
>> >
>> > I appreciate knowing about portability issues. :-)
>> >
>> >> I use awk a lot (on plan9 and elsewhere) and I wonder what reasons do
>> >> you have to use gawk over plan9's awk.
>> >
>> > Many features and extensions over standard awk. Different people will
>> > assign different levels of value to said features and extensions.
>> > A partial list:
>> >
>> > - The previously discussed dynamic plug-in facility
>> > - And awk-level debugger
>> > - A statement count profiler (and a pretty printer)
>> > - True arrays of arrays
>> > - Many more built-in functions and variables. In retrospect, some of these
>> >   are just bloat and I'd have been better off without them.
>> >
>> > Arnold
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Hugo
>



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Hugo