From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6135 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2022 18:26:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 20 Aug 2022 18:26:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD9240D34; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 04:26:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-pl1-f181.google.com (mail-pl1-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 230AE40CED for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 04:26:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pl1-f181.google.com with SMTP id 2so6683858pll.0 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:26:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cfcl.com; s=google; h=to:references:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:date:in-reply-to :from:subject:mime-version:from:to:cc; bh=LifeVYLv7q6pE2YRqz9CMMCDN+xo7fYeMBwvQmEhYZs=; b=JdOc1LzU93LioCYoeB26iSN2u8X/Q4+xi1oGrqiFlJfKpJ599AlkotbVM4b1rUtrTD vhksb9rxDAvkTuVeuFJpHS1C0c27xuXPLBTNcJ3qtyxxCkxje5dNSNuxhD9Q+gxD1S2k xIAgMwlJkUxbw2LkhVVRiIfuETN7LLHO2LQIkBkcqQO6yuD0oLRlj6whHjYhLgv1PpTl 2OvSD/wDWAOx0+HGnRircGAF+xRT/eHyuEJJ0zUhKHFYJxsBQAO8QkpkSdA49oHFeejy uFU30CnERCmBbIYtuWUf3D22r/TgH+IFhuJbdjAeDgltuGZrMehZgJrSJ5MDUnG6Rgsz gZ6g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=to:references:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:date:in-reply-to :from:subject:mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc; bh=LifeVYLv7q6pE2YRqz9CMMCDN+xo7fYeMBwvQmEhYZs=; b=c4elS4Lefg/75t80Xtf/fHmwGC3nyfBSlPWrwTbXRwHyXS1OKuYcUTF9Qsel0oMpfD t3ynvCOZv11CaD1IxDmt+WCSt7ogOrK21fj3UOMSJ0mKc4SuJ9C7Nepfk3ogAByJIyIH lmt417CaqbzmAQmY5z1GM0YkL3oxYSTbzfITM+ktZUbLmoV0h/8vmWK1zWnk3XnoQmfi EkjlEjZfgPx9VLGe4lp477TNE/Tm5f0eYyFjurkTG5/cv/6ncITzXWBRG/lx2hJGKxSw SsiFXD2BDy2uza6ZSTGFkeIqruvOcrW6MlcwtQf2J7up8WOZJxbdnDWzbvhoYaWn9mkk /Vdg== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo1/pjRVNcK/LBa50NMNZzzZUGpR8Bo/qqRHWse3i/LZKCL9Rqr9 la1HQGH/D+u6e2ELd9nJNx4sP8lTH4CwhQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR7pfqXhGLTTj5kRG3k0C3oE2FNZEdl3fIOMtllO/Jm0CCJ6FbW842WO4d2/m2W7r/vPZup37Q== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:8643:b0:172:e067:d7ac with SMTP id y3-20020a170902864300b00172e067d7acmr81804plt.164.1661019900415; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.4.38] (24-113-81-134.wavecable.com. [24.113.81.134]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9-20020a17090a2a4900b001f326ead012sm7159377pjg.37.2022.08.20.11.24.59 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.120.23.2.7\)) From: Rich Morin In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:24:57 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: TUHS main list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.120.23.2.7) Message-ID-Hash: 6PVRXM7BD6B42NXGCO7UZVMPLRXZ55J6 X-Message-ID-Hash: 6PVRXM7BD6B42NXGCO7UZVMPLRXZ55J6 X-MailFrom: rdm@cfcl.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Nice video with Brian Kernighan List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: After watching the video, I remain curious about a couple of things. Q: What were Brian's main contributions to AWK? (aside from the book :-) Q: Where did the idea for AWK originate? FWIW, my spouse (Vicki Brown) used AWK to support her Master's thesis. = She: - defined a common, human-friendly data format - used AWK to convert it for submission to IBM and Univac programs - used AWK to boil down the output (printer plots of dendograms) - used AWK to convert the data for use with my SunCore interpreter This all worked very well, but some real pain was involved when her = advisor asked her to convert her scripts to Fortran... -r