On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:51:48 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <k...@shike2.com> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, and it says "use at your own risk". Possibly because that update only fixed compilation problems on current platforms. > > Gawk on the other hand is under active development. > > Maybe you could say it is under continue blow proccess. Sorry for your cluelessness experience. Read more, talk less. Kind Regards - Robert Figura
