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From: jaapna@xs4all.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Subject: [TUHS] when did new awk first appear?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:02:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70633485-3EE6-4D7B-B15F-2141A5F3F2D7@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9E96BA.2070208@solar.stanford.edu>


On Apr 8, 2011, at 7:01, Deborah Scherrer wrote:

> Brian Kernighan wrote awk

Officially it was written by Aho Weinberger Kernighan but
I suspect Brian did most of the actual coding.

> Debbie
> 
> On 4/7/2011 9:10 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> bwk tarred up his awk source and sent it to me.

I suspect it was actually a shar ball. I received a version around 1987
when the book (See <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/>)
was still being written.

I don't know when it was officially distributed or in which distribution.

	jaap



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-08  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-11 10:43 arnold
2011-04-08 16:33 Brian S Walden
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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