What I mean is, wouldn't it be duplicated work to create your own awk when there's already a good version out there? Or is there something wrong with bwk's One True Awk?
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Dimitris Papastamos <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:48:51PM -0200, Alba Pompeo wrote: >> Hello. >> I notice awk is in the sbase TODO. >> Why not just import Kernighan's awk[0]? He created the language after >> all. And the program isn't legacy code (last update was on 2012). So >> all looks fine. >> Want to hear what you think. >> Ciao >> [0] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/ >> > > I don't want to import an awk implementation. > > If you already use sbase on a system and you want awk, you can just > build Kernighan's awk and use it. > > I don't see why we need to import it. >
