> I felt i could get away with gawk, because the larger part of the
> community considers gawk as _the_ awk.

Maybe you should change what community you form part.

> It seems to me, even the creators of awk are endorsing gawk over other
> implementations. The smell is there, maybe posix awk is dead?

I don't think so. Take a look to 
'http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/index.html', the place where you 
can download The One True Awk of Kernighan,
whose last version is less of two year ago.

> Gawk on the other hand is under active development.

Maybe you could say it is under continue blow proccess.

Regards,


-- 
Roberto E. Vargas Caballero

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