> this doesn't seem like motiviation to rewrite awk. there must be another
> reason?
I think "rewrite" is a mischaracterization (nobody is talking about re-
implementing the awk interpreter), so arguing against that seems to be beside
the point. Probably, "port awk to Plan 9 without using APE" is more accurate.
>From memory, the "awk is not a native Plan 9 program" problem has been
>discussed
a few times on 9fans. Googling, I found the following message, which describes
some of the issues raised:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17798.html
> by the way, thinking a bit bigger, what i'd like to see is x, where x is to
> awk as rc is to the
> bourne shell.
The ssam (stream interface to sam) script from plan9port is heavier than
awk by itself, but can be useful for a lot of the same tasks.
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