> 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/9fans@cse.psu.edu/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. sl