On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Andy Chu wrote:
>> Hi, Dennis --
>>
>> IANAL, of course, but I certainly would have no objection, and I
>> suspect there is no one left at Lucent (now Alcatel now Nokia)
>> who would even know this program existed, let alone care. Whether
>> it's the best code is
> Hi, Dennis --
>
> IANAL, of course, but I certainly would have no objection, and I
> suspect there is no one left at Lucent (now Alcatel now Nokia)
> who would even know this program existed, let alone care. Whether
> it's the best code is an entirely different issue -- it's pretty
> grimy insid
> Well, way back when I tried to make sense of busybox's awk
> implementation, which is around 3000 lines of C.
>
> More recently, I read about half the posix awk description and dug up a
> copy of the original "The AWK Programming Language" book by Aho,
> Kernighan, and Weinberger from 1988, which
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Andy Chu wrote:
> Kernighan Awk (updated 2012) - 8K lines. Lucent BSD? license. Yacc grammar.
According to the README in the source
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On 05/08/2016 01:06 PM, Andy Chu wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
>> (The end in sight for _busybox_ in my own use cases is next up on my
>> todo list. Really not looking forward to implementing awk, but it's
>> gotta be done...)
>
>
> I'm curious what research you've
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> (The end in sight for _busybox_ in my own use cases is next up on my
> todo list. Really not looking forward to implementing awk, but it's
> gotta be done...)
I'm curious what research you've done on awk?
>From my research, it seems like a si
