Re: gawk etc

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 8 Feb 2008, at 14:03, steve donovan wrote:

> (g)awk is a lovely language. Look at those old books by Jon Bentley  
> and
> you'll see the oldtimers prototyping things in AWK. Was probably the
> first scripting language, apart from BASIC and shell ;)

awk is also, apart from shell, the only real programming language  
that guaranteed to be installed on a POSIX machine.  All the language  
compilers like c90 and f77 are optional.

drj