From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tuhs@cuzuco.com (Brian S Walden)
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:33:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] when did new awk first appear?
Message-ID: <201104081633.p38GXEnc002327@cuzuco.com>

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