From: tuhs@cuzuco.com (Brian S Walden)
Subject: [TUHS] when did new awk first appear?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:33:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104081633.p38GXEnc002327@cuzuco.com> (raw)
Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
> Officially it was written by Aho Weinberger Kernighan but
> I suspect Brian did most of the actual coding.
quote of Aho from an interview ---
"We [Aho and Kernighan] had created a grammatical specification for AWK but
hadn't yet created the full run-time environment. Weinberger came along
and said 'hey, this looks like a language I could use myself', and within
a week he created a working run time for AWK."
see http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/216844/a-z_programming_languages_awk/?fp=4194304&fpid=1%2F
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2011-04-08 16:33 Brian S Walden [this message]
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2011-04-11 10:43 arnold
2011-04-08 3:56 Brian S Walden
2011-04-08 4:10 ` Larry McVoy
2011-04-08 4:21 ` Warner Losh
2011-04-08 7:52 ` martin hardie
2011-04-08 10:19 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-04-08 5:01 ` Deborah Scherrer
2011-04-08 5:06 ` Larry McVoy
2011-04-08 9:02 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2011-04-07 19:07 Aharon Robbins
2011-04-11 9:56 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-04-11 11:35 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2011-04-12 19:17 ` Aharon Robbins
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