> I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE > awk can be thrown in the trash.
In my wild dreams I wish for a native version of ghostscript (the only justified use of APE, if you believe in fairness (or fairy tales :-)). But maybe Go will eventually stimulate development of a sane text processing suite. One is allowed to dream, isn't one? Donald, where are you when one needs you? Lucio.