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* [TUHS] The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?
@ 2023-09-09 19:51 markus schnalke
  2023-09-09 20:13 ` [TUHS] " christopher fujino
  2023-09-10 19:41 ` arnold
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: markus schnalke @ 2023-09-09 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Hoi,

I just discovered that one of my favorite computer books about my
best liked programming language (besides C) releases in a second
edition. Does anyone know what the differences of 1st and 2nd
edition are?

As the original book is almost perfect, the only rework and
extension direction I can think of is towards different
implementations like gawk, mawk, portability and such things.

Does anyone know more about it? Maybe some inside information? ;-)


meillo

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* [TUHS] Re: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?
@ 2023-09-13 21:28 arnold
  2023-09-15  1:40 ` Mary Ann Horton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread
From: arnold @ 2023-09-13 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Hello All.

For whoever's interested, the csv code has been merged into the master
branch of the Git repo.  Have fun!

Arnold

> From: arnold at skeeve.com (arnold at skeeve.com)
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 13:41:34 -0600
> Subject: [TUHS] The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?
>
> Hi.
>
> markus schnalke <meillo at marmaro.de> wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> >
> > I just discovered that one of my favorite computer books about my
> > best liked programming language (besides C) releases in a second
> > edition. Does anyone know what the differences of 1st and 2nd
> > edition are?
> >
> > As the original book is almost perfect, the only rework and
> > extension direction I can think of is towards different
> > implementations like gawk, mawk, portability and such things.
> >
> > Does anyone know more about it? Maybe some inside information? ;-)
> >
> > meillo
>
> Inside information? As it happens, yes, I do have some. :-)
> (I was a reviewer.)
>
> [In the below, "awk" means Brian Kernighan's awk.]
>
> In the 36 (!) years since the first edition was published, awk
> has undergone, shall we say, a large number of small changes. These
> are listed in the FIXES file currently in the master branch of
> https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk.
>
> In addition, Brian Kernighan decided to add support for UTF-8 input,
> which is what awk now expects, and support for CSV input files when
> invoked with the --csv option. Furthermore, there is a new \u escape
> sequence which must be followed by 1-8 hexadecimal digits for specifying
> Unicode code points.
>
> The book itself has been carefully revised. The large second chapter
> which was a reference to the full language was moved to an appendix.
> Many of the example programs from the first edition were retained
> and updated, but there is also quite of lot of pleasing new material.
>
> There is mention of, and occasional comparison with, gawk, mawk and
> Ben Hoyt's GoAwk, but by and large the focus is on the authors' version.
>
> The new code is currently in the "csv" branch of the above Github
> repo.  The maintainer is in the process of tidying up the repo (dealing
> with issues and pull requests) and will merge the csv branch into
> master sometime in the very near future.
>
> I'm told that the printed books with get to the publisher's warehouse
> towards the end of September. The book is available now on O'Reilly's
> Safari learning site (safari.oreilly.com) for anyone who has a
> subscription.
>
> Matching code (--csv and \u) are in gawk's master branch now. I will
> make a release this fall, after the new code has moved into master
> in BWK's awk.
>
> I heartily recommend the book; it is totally up to Brian Kernighan's
> usual very high standard.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Arnold
>

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* [TUHS] Re: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?
@ 2023-09-16  1:20 Norman Wilson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Norman Wilson @ 2023-09-16  1:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

To the Attention of Warren Toomey (and all who stay in his
hotel):

I don't care enough to weigh in on any issues that don't
interest me, but I am the most important person in the
world, and whatever I say goes, so you better listen or
you'll be sorry.

It is my very important opinion that only things I want
to hear about should be discussed on this mailing list.
I want to hear about Unix and awk, but not about perl.
No one must talk about any shell except Ken's original.
The sun scares me, forcing me to hack all night and sleep
all day (never mind the malicious stories that I press
wild flowers); therefore there must never be any mention
of Sun Microsystems or Solaris.  I am also worried that
a comet will fall on my house and damage my Twinkie
stockpile, so no discussion of the VAX-11/750 is allowed,
nor of work done by the Bell Labs Computing Science
Research Center during the 1980s when much of their
work was done on systems of that model, which were even
named (ewwwww!!!) after comets.

Any mention of non-nerd-approved(TM) subjects is also
forbidden, including Agricola, ferrets, mimes (which are
even scarier than comets!), Lions (and Tigers and Bears),
lurgi, csv files, and gannets (they wet their nests).
Not to mention Bazonka.

I hereby direct the moderators of this list, who must
obey my every command, to terminate with extreme prejudice
anyone who dares even to think of violating these rules.

Viva la revolution!

Yeliz Gardinovich Bimmler (Mrs)
Port Morton, Alabama, CUS

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2023-09-09 19:51 [TUHS] The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new? markus schnalke
2023-09-09 20:13 ` [TUHS] " christopher fujino
2023-09-10 19:41 ` arnold
2023-09-10 19:59   ` Norman Wilson
2023-09-11  5:59   ` markus schnalke
2023-09-11 13:52     ` Stuff Received
2023-09-13 21:28 arnold
2023-09-15  1:40 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-09-15  3:48   ` arnold
2023-09-16 17:52     ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-09-15  3:49   ` Ajay Shah
2023-09-15  3:54     ` arnold
2023-09-15  9:09       ` KenUnix
2023-09-15 11:24         ` Dan Cross
2023-09-15 20:04         ` Dave Horsfall
2023-09-15 20:09           ` John Cowan
2023-09-15 20:17         ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2023-09-16 17:32           ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-09-15 21:08         ` Warner Losh
2023-09-16  1:20 Norman Wilson

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