From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 20:41:30 -0400 From: sl@9front.org To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Ports tree for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 570f3654-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > this doesn't seem like motiviation to rewrite awk. there must be another reason? I think "rewrite" is a mischaracterization (nobody is talking about re- implementing the awk interpreter), so arguing against that seems to be beside the point. Probably, "port awk to Plan 9 without using APE" is more accurate. >>From memory, the "awk is not a native Plan 9 program" problem has been discussed a few times on 9fans. Googling, I found the following message, which describes some of the issues raised: https://www.mail-archive.com/9fans@cse.psu.edu/msg17798.html > by the way, thinking a bit bigger, what i'd like to see is x, where x is to awk as rc is to the > bourne shell. The ssam (stream interface to sam) script from plan9port is heavier than awk by itself, but can be useful for a lot of the same tasks. sl