On May 30, 2015, at 11:54 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE >> awk can be thrown in the trash. > > i don't understand this. awk is bwk's ota source, with some minor tweaks to > fit the > environment. it works well, and allows portable awk to be written. can you > explain what is to be gained by a re do? i don't think "doesn't use ape" per > ce > is a good argument. it would have to be explained what this enables. i > can't see > that part. > > - erik if i understood correctly, the major reasons were better unicode handling and not using sh for system(). sl