-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:22:11PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Derek D. Martin writes: > >Common myth says that AWK was named from the first letters of the > >authors. The truth is it's just short for AWKward programming > >language... > > Hah! For really awkward programming, try sed. Judging from the man > page, I think it actually has most of the power of awk. A lot more > obscure, though.
I don't disagree! However, sed was designed to be an editor, whereas awk truly was intended to be a programming language. :) - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE73HusdjdlQoHP510RAmtpAJ45O+HEi4K0eaVv0icdDJWPddO2wwCgqVkm sSuWh8zyOXhMe7Te9NTLCdw= =JUTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
