<<On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:23:50 +1200, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel.

> Is that desirable? Or do we need more awk?

Um, yes.  The reason we have Perl in the base system is so that
programs like this can be written -- in a way that (a) doesn't involve
a seventeen-pipeline shell script, and (b) is maintainable by people
whose names are not Aho, Weinberger, or Kernighan.

-GAWollman

PS: Yes, I know that awk is standardized.  That doesn't make it any
clearer when the program is doing something other than iterating over
each line in an input file.

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