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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx and AWK
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:50:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1c228eaf4783a6dba1373ea8b1796e3@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a81fe9be0907240410t4267f19fq8d5122085d9e3acb@mail.gmail.com>

> PS: I have read old logs where it was discussed that awk should be a
> native plan9 application and not an ape port (or, at least, it should
> use rc instead of the ape shell). Is there any reason this was not
> done? or was it not worth the trouble?

probablly because it'll (or could, anyway) break working scripts.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24 10:03 Sergey Zhilkin
2009-07-24 11:10 ` yy
2009-07-24 12:50   ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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