On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:31:28 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Btw, what did you mean by blow process? Arnold is one of the most > > conservative maintainers i've seen in the gnu. > > /usr/src/gawk-4.1.1+dfsg > 61385 total
> /usr/src/awk > 6442 total I couldn't reproduce your exact numbers. But sure, gawk itself isn't suckless. And? > You have to think this is suckless community, where we think the > most important point is the simplicity, and some projects are incredible > small, dwm has a limit of 2000 lines, st is only 3800 lines or surf is only > 1500. We are reimplementating all the UNIX basic tools in sbase to avoid > these bloated versions. I'm here because i believe a plumber variant to be of interest to some people around suckless. I'm not here to write a new awk. I also don't expect to make it to sbase. > From our point of view an implementation of awk with 60000 lines is a > really horrible implementation, and it is one of the next candidates for > sbase. Yesyesyes, i've been reading here for a while. So what. If you go on and marry plumber and plan9's awk for me i might chime in and help you. Have fun, - Robert Figura
