From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <d1c228eaf4783a6dba1373ea8b1796e3@quanstro.net>
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:50:38 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
In-Reply-To: <a81fe9be0907240410t4267f19fq8d5122085d9e3acb@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx and AWK
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c3039a0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

> 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